Martha Grimes Quotes

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

The unknown is always interesting.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Things that are unknown attract us.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.