Always Quote by D. J. MacHale

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

— Fred Saberhagen

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

— Nick Flynn

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

— Jane Smiley

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

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception,…

— Starhawk

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand…

— Sandra Brown

The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless…

— James Patterson

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

— Tana French

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that…

— Tana French

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question…

— Claire Cameron

It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some…

— John Darnielle

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly…

— Isabel Allende