Alive Quote by Rick Riordan

I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the…

— Rick Riordan

There is a certain nostalgia to the idea of Unsolved Mysteries.'

— Lauren Ash

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

— Charles de Lint

You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have…

— Raymond Burr

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

— Sandra Bullock

I love mysteries - just in an old school way.

— Josh Holloway

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

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of…

— David Remnick

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of…

— Nancy Horan

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and…

— Geraldine Brooks

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