It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I've done, I can always claim it was part of the additional weirdness of the story.
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.