Jim Butcher Quotes

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

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

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

I love the mystery behind things.

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

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.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

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

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.