Bentley Little Quotes

If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Mystery

• It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • World
  • Age
  • Popular

• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Mystery

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

  

  Oliver North
  • Writers
  • Readers

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • You
  • Question
  • Mystery

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Movie
  • Soul
  • Mystery

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Want
  • You
  • Mystery

• I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mystery
  • Novels
  • Dramas

• Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Light

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Stop
  • Understand
  • Humble

• I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

  

  Amanda Hocking
  • Fun
  • Inspiration
  • Teenager

• Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Words
  • Running

• Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Clothes

• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Eyes
  • Moments
  • Eye

• I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.

  

  L. S. Lowry
  • Grateful
  • Collecting
  • Tenants

• In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fence

• If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Mystery
  • Writers
  • Conventions