Quotes About Twist

Let me be your plot twist.

Ever seen the play Arsenic and Old Lace?

I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.

his body close to the ground, he turned and

Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.

It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down on you.

The '60s was leather soles and a wooden floor. That's why the twist, the simplest dance, was such a sensation. Everyone could do it. They just swivel their feet and the upper body fell naturally in the opposite direction.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

I'd love to make a thriller.

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

I think I'll stick with psychological thrillers.

I find psychological thrillers interesting both dramatically and visually.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable. -Antimodes, Soulforge

I want to take my readers on a ride, but, in the end, I want to throw them from the carriage.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.

We intend marching by night," Harris answered. "Fine. In what direction?" "We shall take a compass, of course." "Tell me one day what it was reading when you passed the Jebel Haroudji Mountains here." He tapped the map. "They're mostly magnetic rock. Have you ever seen a compass do the twist?

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I love Hitchcock's films because even though you knew who did it right at the beginning, he still kept the audience engaged till the last frame.