Quotes About Twists

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

For each of us, life is a story. There are characters, conflicts, plot developments, crises, interludes, twists and resolutions. Sometimes the story makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. But there's still value in the story itself, even when you can't add up the parts and understand the whole. A good story can lead you toward insight perhaps wisdom, regardless of whether or not you fully understand it. Maybe that's why storytelling has always been so important to me.

Undoubtedly, neutrality is such a context that only subsists and twists in the dictionaries and books, not in the minds practically.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head.

I felt I saw an escape from desolation, only it was cold and dark, this escape, and it led by twists and turns into a world of eternal darkness where the raw earth gave the only smell to one's hands, one's skin, one's clothes.

The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

Life takes many twists and turns. It bruises and burns and rips apart. But it also loves and heals and forgives.

History is full of surprises.

A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

I love writing thrillers.

With a thriller, you're going to have your red herrings, as different suspects are thrown up as possible culprits. You can only explore that for so long - if you do that more than a few times, it starts to get a little redundant.

An interesting journey never follows a straight path

If I were ever to make an old-fashioned film noir—with a cynical plot full of intrigue, violence, and sudden twists, filmed on dark and menacing streets in misty black and white—I would shoot it in Havana.

But life takes sudden twists.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

I'd found my path. I might not know the exact twists and turns it would take, but that was part of what I'd learned. Options changed. Needs changed. I could wing it a little. The important thing was seeing the overall picture. The forest.

The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it's always the same beginning, and the same ending.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

The difference between a scientist and a fanatic is that the scientist discards his theory if the evidence doesn't confirm it. The fanatic twists the evidence to fit the theory.