Quotes About Intrigue

Oui, sans le connaître, sans même avoir jamais vu ses traits, je lui en ai voulu. Être jaloux d'un mort. Vouloir être à sa place.

Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air

body in the companionway. A quick

visions of Rex Kellerman danced in her head like demented sugar plum fairies.

green trench coat so that it hid brown hair that reached

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

It's not often you get to hang out with someone you're really intrigued by. So when Will.i.am invited me to visit him at home, I couldn't resist.

Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did.

I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

Rereading 'Child 44' brought out the novel's meatier pleasures, its ability to create vivid characters in a world both alien to our own and chillingly recognizable.

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Power works best when it is indirect - never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

I read a lot about serial killers.

They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.