Books Quote by Stuart Jaffe

“Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type…

— Anthony Boucher

“I really enjoy mysteries, well-written fiction novels, historical novels, and the occasional vampire, wolf, human triangle as long as it's real”

— Michael Connelly

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in…

— Isabel Allende

“Secondhand books are full of mysteries, which is why I like them. Frederick”

— Cath Crowley

“I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider what is…

— Robert Harris

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“The many mysteries boil down to three. There is the kind that can be solved: who planted the bomb? Will the travellers reach their…

— James Meek

Judging by the volume of titles published each year, mystery readers are restless in their pursuit of literary escape. They might travel to far-flung…

— Sarah Weinman

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is…

— Gregory Mcdonald

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery…

— Anne Tyler

“I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like "How did…

— Connie Willis

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

— Demetri Martin