Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization’s abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909. – David Roberts
I’ve never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I’m not a good roommate. I’m better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery. – Marlon Wayans
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. – Elia Kazan
I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it’s going on inside you, the camera will find it. – Gabriel Byrne
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god. – Nick Davies
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored. – Deborah Harkness
If there wasn’t mystery, people wouldn’t have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn’t have anything to think about and life would just be really boring. – Emma Roberts
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that’s why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher. – Patrick Stewart
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N’ Roll Mystery Tour. – Nina Blackwood
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I’ll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. – David Herbert Donald
I just remember when I came out of film school – and I loved film school – that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls. – Gina Prince-Bythewood
I think I’d be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the ’40s. I’d be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I’d suit that decade. – Paloma Faith
If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution. – Matthew Pearl
I confess to loving a good murder mystery – anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it’s a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. – Gary Locke
If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story. – Deanna Raybourn
I don’t think it’s any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet. – David A. R. White
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that. – Cormac McCarthy
I’ve never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun. – Edward Zwick
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young
I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot. – Martha Grimes
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime. – Diane Mott Davidson
The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There’s a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us. – Graham Moore
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues. – Claire Cameron