“But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we’ll find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened.”

“But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we’ll find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened.”

— Ali Smith