Citas de novelas de misterio

• At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

  Raymond Chandler

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

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  El misterio crea asombro y el asombro es la base del deseo del hombre por comprender.

  Neil Armstrong

  Inspiración, Vida, Inspiración

  "Magnífica desolación: Caminando sobre la Luna 3D". Documental, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Two, Stories, Happened

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• El mundo está lleno de cosas obvias que nadie por casualidad observa.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Vida, Cosas Obvias, Mundo

  Sherlock Holmes en El sabueso de los Baskerville (1901).

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• Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Views, Justice

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Si tuviera una librería haría que todas las novelas de misterio fueran difíciles de encontrar.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Life, Bookstores

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  Lo más bello que podemos experimentar es lo misterioso. Es la fuente de todo arte y ciencia verdaderos.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiración, Vida, Amistad

  Albert Einstein (2010). "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein", p.331, Princeton University Press

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• El verdadero misterio del mundo es lo visible, no lo invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiración, Familia, Felicidad

  Oscar Wilde (2015). "El retrato de Dorian Gray", p.31, Ediciones Primera Avenida.

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• When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Tea

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• La posesión de conocimientos no mata el sentido de la maravilla y el misterio. Siempre hay más misterio.

  Anais Nin

  Espiritual, Lección de vida, Conocimiento

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• make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mistake, Expression, Stories

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• One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Hero, Writing, Hands

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• La gente llama "rompecabezas" a las novelas de misterio o de suspense. Nunca lo he entendido, porque cuando compro un puzzle, ya sé lo que es. Está en la caja. E incluso si no lo sé, si es un puzzle de 5.000 piezas de la "Mona Lisa", no es como si pusiera la última pieza y dijera: "¡No tenía ni idea de que era la "Mona Lisa"!

  Harlan Coben

  Ideas, People, Lasts

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• A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

  Don DeLillo

  Real, Book, Wind

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ¿Jura solemnemente no ocultar nunca una pista vital al lector? ¿Prometes observar una aparente moderación en el uso de bandas, conspiraciones, Super Criminales y Lunáticos y renunciar por completo y para siempre a Venenos Misteriosos desconocidos para la ciencia? ¿Honrarás al Inglés del Rey? ... Si no cumples tu promesa, que otros escritores roben tus tramas y tus páginas se llenen de erratas.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kings, Forever, Honor

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• It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

  Jiménez Lai

  Writing, Important, Takeaways

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• En mi lento peregrinar por el mundo, una cierta sensación de bello misterio parece acumularse y crecer.

  A. C. Benson

  Beautiful, World, Certain

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• El misterio tiene sus propios misterios, y hay dioses por encima de los dioses. Nosotros tenemos los nuestros, ellos tienen los suyos. Eso es lo que se conoce como infinito.

  Jean Cocteau

  God, Infinity, Known

  Jean Cocteau (1967). “The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

  Lena Dunham

  Giving, Laughing, Doe

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• [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

  Dorothy Parker

  White, House, Lawns

  Dorothy Parker (1970). "Un mes de sábados: treinta y una piezas célebres de "Lector Constante"".

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• Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Keys, Poetry

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

  Alan Bradley

  Fun, Book, Character

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". March 8, 2013, www.reuters.com. Interview with Noreen O'Donnell.

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

  Linwood Barclay

  Sueño, Libro, Escritura

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