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A mystery in the older sense is like a prime number, which cannot be resolved into any combination of factors, but remains fully, inexorably, and unchangeably itself. A mystery in the newer sense, however, is a puzzle that can and will be worked out, or solved.

the hedgehog review • Mystery

I am grateful for mystery.

the mystery of mysteries, as it is the mystery that encapsulates the paradoxical characteristic of all mystery, although essential to the nature of mystery is an indeterminacy that renders its imprint constantly different, a genuine repetition that erupts from an originary transformation,

Elliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson

Mystery means gaining interest through curiosity alone. We create but then conceal expositional facts, particularly facts in the Backstory.

Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Mysteries offer no such clarity of definition, and no objectively correct solution: they are imbued with vagueness and indeterminacy. We approach mysteries by asking ‘What is going on here?’, and recognise that even afterwards our understanding is likely to be only partial. They provide none of the comfort and pleasure of reaching the ‘right’ answe... See more

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Writing is mystagogy. It is leading oneself, or others, into a great mystery. Their own lives are a mystery. It is a good place to start.

The normal and the everyday is a mystery, too. Yet few people have the eyes to see it that way

Luke Burgis • Why I Write

that mystery is what fuels our imagination. In the book I wrote, Our World of Illusion, I spoke of the power of mystery and how mystery fuels the imagination.

Bruno De Campos • River Through the Heart

Mysteries are murkier, less neat. They pose questions that can’t be answered definitively, because the answers often depend on a highly complex and interrelated set of factors, both known and unknown.

Ian Leslie • Curious

Ce mélange de secret, de complexité et de hasard, cela s’appelle du mystère.