Quotes About Twist

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Ojalá encuentres el agujero negro que te tiene reservado el Universo. Y que seas bien infeliz en él, retorciéndote en la materia condensada, aplastado como una cucaracha por el Big Crush.

I promise I won't eat you. Unless you die. If you die I'm going to eat you.

Then maybe you'll help me convince Mr. MacGregor that I should paint his house. Just watch how you have to twist his arm, Serena said dryly.

The tension was slipping away from under his fingers as he touched her, and building everywhere else. A kind of gathering inside her, a concentration of heat. The pressure in her chest was so sudden and strong it made her breath short. The muscles in her stomach began to twist, tighten. Ache. "My face doesn't have anything to do with what I am." "Maybe not, but that doesn't take away the pure pleasure of looking at it.

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often though, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.

Plot is like Soylent Green: it's made of people.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

My life is a twisted rainbow.

Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn't it?

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

Mother's ironic vision of life as one prank after another

watching the flames twist in the wind.

He would have to be as clever as a river, he thought, to do well. But he could twist and turn like water, and go his own way, however hard the world tried to drive him along another -- or, the thought he could do that.

Plot is the structure of revelation.

The roads twist and turn up there like maggots on an overripe peach.

From his vantage, three steps back and to the right, Tallow could see Rosato's eye a good five inches outside Rosato's head and still attached to his eye socket by a mess of red worms. In that single second, Tallow abstractedly realized that in his last moment of life, James Rosato could see his killer from two different angles.

This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it take a turn you didn't expect.