Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.
Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.
I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.
Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.
People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.
