Brilliant Quote by Antonia Fraser

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

— Cecelia Ahern

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

— Fred Saberhagen

To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always…

— D. J. MacHale

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

— Michael Ondaatje

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

— Tana French

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

— Donna Leon

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later,…

— Michael Ondaatje

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

— Ernest Gaines

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in…

— Susanna Fogel

I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that…

— Diana Gabaldon