I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes. – Isabel Allende
Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery. – Jeff Buckley
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. – Giorgio de Chirico
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity. – Jean Cocteau
It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn’t sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, ‘Let me try something else,’ and I wrote a mystery – but I didn’t know much about it. – James Patterson
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery. – Jonah Goldberg
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. – John Burnside
Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me. – Jhumpa Lahiri
There’s a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of ‘Descender.’ There’s sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it. – Jeff Lemire
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. – Godfrey Reggio
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don’t think that there’s any real mystery there. – Joel Coen
This summer, I’ll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don’t think you’ve ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham. – James Patterson
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. – John Podhoretz
You know, there’s that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound – well, to give yourself a bit of mystery. – Johnny Vegas
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, ‘The Thomas Berryman Number’, and it was turned down by, I don’t know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure. – James Patterson
Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. – Ivan Pavlov
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. – Antonin Scalia
I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.’ – Brene Brown
The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it’s mystic. – Joshua Cohen
What would you have if you didn’t have a murder in a mystery? You’d have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there’s nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It’s the ultimate stakes. – Alane Ferguson
The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into. – Brie Larson