One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.
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.
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
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.