Perdita Weeks Quotes

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.

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

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.

This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more excited about opening the lock... It's not about finding the treasure; it's more about defeating the puzzle.

I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.

I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.

I like a good suspense thriller when it's smart and well done like 'Armed Response' is.

I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.

Basically, I'm a bit of a nerd and I've always wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube.

'Ajnabee' is a thriller. I play a married man trapped by mysterious circumstances. The film does have a lot of romance and action, but it's not based on 'Consenting Adults.'

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.