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Mystery Novels Quotes

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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson

Authors on Mystery Novels Quotes: Mary Roberts Rinehart Patricia Cornwell Dorothy Parker Art Spiegelman Jean Cocteau Jimenez Lai A. C. Benson
2.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau

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The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

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I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.
Art Spiegelman

5.
Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
Patricia Cornwell

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[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.
Dorothy Parker

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It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.
Jimenez Lai