Quotes About Intrigue

I love thrillers, and I always have.

I like doing thrillers.

With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters.

I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

I love writing thrillers.

I'm really into kind of a 'Sixth Sense' type of movie - mysteries, thrillers a little bit.

I love thrillers.

I think Wilkie Collins was a man ahead of his time, asking really important questions but also telling a really good and thrilling story.

I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down.

For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.

'Game of Thrones' really is an amazing series. Political intrigue, and then they throw in a little magic. I mean, it's got a dragon in it.

With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.

B]oth which officers, with the title of commanders, were waiting near the city, having been prevented from entering in triumph, by the malice of a cabal, whose custom it was to ask a price for every thing, whether honorable or infamous.