There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better.
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.
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.
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.
When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
I'm not a big fan of introducing a bunch of new mysteries into a story without really knowing where they're going because you just end up struggling at the end to make sense of them and make it all seem like you planned it all along.