Any Quote by Cormac McCarthy

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

— Thomas Perry

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment.…

— Isabel Allende

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very…

— David McCullough

After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman…

— Caroline Lawrence

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a…

— Alan Bradley

Indeed, mysteries lead readers through an endless variety of subjects and settings; yet sometimes devotees of detection seek to be transported though another dimension…

— Sarah Weinman

The world will become boring the day we unlock all its secrets, so why not enjoy the mysteries?

— Derek Queen

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

— Janet Evanovich

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy…

— Mickey Spillane

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter.…

— Raymond Chandler