Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology. — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of… — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's… — Steve Hamilton Copy Share Image
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to… — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image
A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
