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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller
Work
Good
Great
Communication
Mysteries
Important
Few
Secondary
Those
Must
Only
Except
Obscure
Like
Himself
Great Work
Reader
Inevitably
Perpetuation
Very
Author
Which
Then
Who
Initiated
Necessary
A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time; it is just the way it works.
Herb Kelleher
Time
Happy
Mysteries
Back
Way
All-Time
Employee
Well
Coming
Motivated
Green
Just
Enduring
Customer
Works
Keep
Treats
Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the queue is the second-most baffling. The first is the fan.
Howard Jacobson
Day
Angry
Every Day
Sometimes
Secular
Mysteries
First
Every
Baffling
Fresh
Amazement
Wake
Queue
Fan
Which
My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Mom
Me
Relationship
Mother
Mysteries
Club
Cute
Think
Addiction
Outfits
Drew
Like
Nancy
Well
Without
Got
Boyfriend
Which
Preferred
Reason
Series
Her
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
Jane Smiley
Life
Thought
Rest
My Life
Mysteries
Write
Might
An important part of any good mystery story like 'Original Sin' is that it's not just a game of 'Clue' with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it's far from the whole story.
Jason Aaron
Good
You
Game
Mysteries
Important
Once
Tell
Solution
Mystery
Part
Sin
Like
Know
Important Part
Surprise
Goal
Any
Just
After
Story
Clue
Midst
Far
Original
Whole
Even
Original Sin
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau
Mysteries
Own
Ours
Above
Mystery
Known
Gods
Infinity
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
Jeff Greenfield
Myself
Thought
College
Mysteries
Case
Wrote
Obvious
Came
Than
After
Electoral
Electoral College
Less
Novel
Originally
Away
Believing
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.
Jeff Lemire
You
Mysteries
Big
Sense
Introducing
Seem
Struggling
New
Along
Like
Knowing
Make
Because
Without
Big Fan
End
Up
Bunch
Going
Just
Where
Fan
Story
Them
Really
Planned
Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.
Jeffrey Kluger
Girl
Mysteries
Ways
Brothers
Puzzle
Boy
Sisters
Socializing
With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.
Jenny Zhang
Political
Try
Mysteries
Immediate
Relief
Solutions
Able
Some
Rather
More
Lead
Had
Clear
Ideas
Also
Learn
How
Nonfiction
Answers
Questions
Than
Articulate
Fiction
Interested
Asking
Asking Questions
Communicator
Beliefs
There's great cars, and then there's Aston Martins. Same thing for the 1959 Les Paul - it's an authentic piece of art that can never truly be replicated, and its mysteries are special.
Joe Bonamassa
Art
Great
Car
Mysteries
Same Thing
Never
Piece
Truly
Authentic
Same
Paul
Then
Les
Special
Thing
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.
Joe R. Lansdale
People
Mysteries
Reading
Books
Joe
Horror
Read
Because
Just
Just Because
Want
Them
The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.
John Berger
Culture
Fear
Mysteries
Lasted
Some
Facing
Amazement
Arrival
Years
Many
Lived
I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
John Hawkes
Mysteries
Think
Ourselves
I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.
John M. Grunsfeld
Home
Mysteries
Universe
Our
Unravel
New
Look
Understand
Enable
NASA
Discoveries
Quest
Planet
Working
Team
Help
Forward
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
John Sununu
Politics
Great
Mysteries
Point
Loophole
Becomes
Precise
Subsidy
Tax
Which
Interests
Incentive
Special
Deduction
Special Interests
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
Jon Meacham
Mysteries
Action
Say
Distinction
Though
Plot
Would
More
Thrillers
Rely
Put
Emphasize
Motive
Same
Same Things
Whereas
Literary
Psychology
Roughly
Things
Sibling
I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them.
Joseph Wiseman
Mysteries
Nothing
About
Take
Know
Them
For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Dreams
Me
Problems
Mysteries
Fall
Finally
Way
About
Above
Investigating
Most
Because
Questions
Up
Human
Themselves
Asleep
Means
Explorer
Exploring
Keep
Night
Filmmaker
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Seen
Mysteries
Veil
Like
Feminine
Still
Want
Themselves
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Kate Morton
You
Book
Mysteries
Feeling
Closed
Market
Out
Inside
Adult
Delving
Opening
Until
Coming
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.
Kathy Reichs
Mysteries
Resolve
Puzzles
Fun
I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.
Lana Condor
Love
Mysteries
Everything
Thrillers
Adult
Like
I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.
Laura van den Berg
Love
Mysteries
Solving
Terrible
Am
Them
Creating
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.
Laura van den Berg
Me
Mysteries
Drew
Entirely
Struck
Take
Since
New
Nancy
Genre
Been
Vertigo
Childhood
Fan
Lovers
Unite
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