Ability Quote by Trenton Lee Stewart

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

— Roger Penrose

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

— Michael Connelly

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel,…

— Henry Rollins

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and…

— John Updike

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my…

— James C. Scott

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

— Nick Flynn

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

— Dan Simmons

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

— Fred Saberhagen

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

— Jane Smiley

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that…

— Vera Nazarian

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