Books Quote by Harlan Coben

“When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST”

— Joseph Fink

A mystery is solved with a story.

— Anonymous

I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver.…

— Patricia Cornwell

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving…

— Christopher Bollen

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has…

— Stephen Sondheim

You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new…

— David Lynch

“While we go through our lives looking for the puzzle pieces to complete our story, we are unknowingly creating them.”

— Garry Fitchett

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it…for me, every act of…

— Truman Capote

People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

— Karin Slaughter

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the…

— Stephen King

I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start…

— Josh McDermitt

“The world that used to give us puzzles but now dishes up mysteries.”

— Jeanne Liedtka