Book Quote by Vila Gingerich

“Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter…

— Sherman Alexie

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

— Elmore Leonard

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he…

— Nicole Krauss

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

— Thomas Perry

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

— Demetri Martin

May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?"…

— Jodi Picoult

“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

“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.”

— E.M. Forster

“You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson. But sometimes it's difficult to get it!”

— Deyth Banger

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the…

— Cormac McCarthy

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

— Gabrielle Zevin

“You have no ideas about what you can find in books these days, I’m telling you.”

— Linda Hamonou