The Art of Mystery Quotes

“If mystery, the genre, is about finding the answers, then mystery, that elusive yet essential element of fiction, is about finding the questions.”
― Maud Casey, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions

“It’s not incidental that Comyns and Rhys were women writers during the interwar period and just after, when a lot was permitted and a lot was denied for women. No way forward? No way back? Levitate.”
― Maud Casey, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions

“The demand for likability is dangerous. It’s a conversation stopper, and we need conversations, in so-called real life and in fiction.”
― Maud Casey, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions

“Isak Dinesen wrote, “There is no mystery in art. Do the things you can see, they will show you what you cannot see.” In other words, there is mystery in art, but one of the ways it is conjured occurs when an author lavishes narrative attention on the visible.”
― Maud Casey, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions

“Stories are how we stand in the presence of mystery.”
― Maud Casey, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions