Mystery Quote by Iris Johansen Download Open image “I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.” — Iris Johansen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mystery Solve Suspense Writing
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.' — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
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 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
I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns. I wrote tiny little slices of life, sent them off to The Sewanee Review, and they always sent them back. For the first 10 years I was published, I'd say, "I'm a writer disguised as a… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share
“He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“Thank you," he said politely. "Though I doubt if such extreme measures were necessary in my case. I'm not a warlike man." "Too much… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“himself like a comet.” “A supernova,” Venable said. “He went back to traditional values” — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“Bradford watched her leave the stable. "Unusual woman. I feel quite intoxicated." He laughed. "But then I felt intoxicated before I met her, so… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever… — Michael Capuzzo Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's better not to know some things. Mysteries make us tick more than just about anything else.” — Jason Carter Eaton Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image