Eudora Welty Quotes

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

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

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

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.

When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

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

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

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

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.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

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

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.