“I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.” FirstsBookHateNamesMysteryI HateAcademic Author:Fran Lebowitz
“To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.” ThinkingNeedsShouldHateParentMysteryRocksSafeElementsMeant To BeIntrigueRock Music Author:Trent Reznor
“The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.” HateTroubleMysteryDrugI HateDrinkingAlcoholGladCode Author:Barry Hannah
“I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.” KnowsKindBookEndsHateWhiteInterestingMysteryDecidedHappily Ever AfterEver AfterBarbaraChristieCosyBlanche Author:Justine Larbalestier
“I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.” ThinkingWorldShouldWritingCharacterHateSidesTermVisionNovelMysteryI HateAverageGlassesDrivenBarriersCarriePuzzlesAnother World Author:Patricia Cornwell
“Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.” IfsPlayCertainHateMysteryExamplePinter Author:John Guare
“It is true that social media, nowadays, is important, but I don't understand everyone needing to know everything about an artist or an actor because it loses the intrigue and mystery. And then, when you're watching them as a character, you can't watching them as a character. You can only watch them as the public figure that they have presented themselves to be. I hate when people say, "Well, that's what you signed up for. That's how it is." No its not. That's not what you signed up for.” PeopleImportantCharacterArtistHateMysteryI HateSocial Media Author:Zoey Deutch
“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.” MenWayFirstsHateAcceptingMysteryIdentityHolyMen And WomenAnd LoveI HateTrue FaithMystery Of God Author:Anne Lamott
“Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168” IfsWantSaidStillsEnoughHateVoiceAnswersAirMysteryCrySmartAngryLipsKneesChipsBeing SmartAurasInsistingPissed OffColonelsQuiverPudgeHate Her Book:Looking for Alaska Source: Looking for Alaska
“I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander’s successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight’s opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them." - Valek” YearsHateOpportunitySleepSecretMysteryIdentityBedI HateEightTonightWakingFifteenCommandersTemptingSuccessorsFifteen Years Book:Poison Study Source: Poison Study