Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I come, O Lord, unto Thy sanctuary to see the life and food of my soul. As I hope in Thee, O… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
“Tito snored away on the other bed. Out there, all around them to the last fringes of occupancy, were Toobfreex at play… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a… — Justin Gustainis Copy Share Image
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge…It is… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
“Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The… — John Donne Copy Share Image
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
When I see that the clothes are sold the day they debut in some cases, I fear we are going to kill… — Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Copy Share Image
“The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
For me, the key image is the boat coming through the fog at the beginning. It's something I imagined and liked and… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of… — Kelsey Chow Copy Share Image
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