Quotes About Intrigue

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you.

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You are just drawn to things, and that's OK.

I love mysteries - just in an old school way.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

I've been sent somebody's heart in a jar. At that point, you're thinking, I'm not sure if I should be opening this!

If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.

When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.

I suppose in about fortnight we shall be told that he has been seen in San Francisco. It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the only thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.