#mystery

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

#hero #heroine #high #into #involves

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#aura #exist #mystery #past #such

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#emancipation #lose #made #mystery #their

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#getting #interviews #lose #minute #mystery

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#hear #i #lives #mystery #offering

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#book #daunting #help #how #into

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#even #exists #great #know #more

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#alarmed #books #corrupt #eager #historical

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#must #mystery #religion #without