Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

The unknown is always interesting.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

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.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

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

I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.

Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art - people shouldn't read too much before they explore.

People get excited about things like 'Swan Lake' because they generate a personal involvement. If you set up the story properly, audiences respond to the ambiguity. People ask, 'What exactly is happening in Act Four?' and I never say. I can't put it into words, but they've got a feeling about it, and that's good enough.

I don't try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting.

In 'Lost,' they really believed in the mystery box and not looking too much inside the mystery box. It was some kind of idea generator that you didn't need to dissect and open up. And that's absolutely fascinating and an engaging way to tell a story.

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.

he's a story i want to know from page one

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

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.