Quotes About Intrigue

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde.

Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

Females in general are embodiment of alluring mysteries that is beyond mortal capacity to decipher or understand.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

On all the 'Housewives' shows, there's always some wannabe wife who's always sticking her head in.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

People love dark stories because they take you to a place you think you don't want to go but really you do.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

I don't always enjoy them, but when a scary movie has a really good storyline, that gets me interested.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end.