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Quotes About Intrigue

Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
~ Peter Handke
Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.
~ Ted Deutch
She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try.
~ Ne-Yo
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
~ Philippa Gregory
People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.
~ Madonna Ciccone
For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
~ David Hurn
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
~ Edith Wharton
People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.
~ Emily Blunt
I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.
~ Paul Newman
Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.
~ Rajneesh
...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.
~ Colleen McCullough
You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.
~ Brenda Novak
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
~ David Foster Wallace
She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
~ Gail Carriger
Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.
~ John Gutmann
Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?
~ Sophia Bush
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
~ Sophie Hannah
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
~ Vera Farmiga
I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.
~ Nicolas Cage
Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.
~ Rachel Marsden
"Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.
~ Ally Carter
I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
~ Ayn Rand
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
~ Barry Hannah