Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Jane Leavy

The only mystery is why we find it surprising that someone opted out, ... It makes him different.

Walt Whitman

I and this mystery, here we stand.

Iris Johansen

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

John McKenzie

We just didn't come out to play the third quarter. It's a mystery to me and I don't know why we didn't.

John Edens

We don't know where he got the book. We don't know who commissioned the watercolors. That's the real mystery here.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles Spurgeon

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Damon Lindelof

There is no suspense in inevitability.

Alfred Hitchcock

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

Antoine Fuqua

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

Iris Johansen

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Jeffery Deaver

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Scott Eastwood

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

John Calvin

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

Philip Pullman

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Lisa Gardner

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.