Quotes About Intriguing

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She took a little getting used to.

Be sure to see that the first few pages have the reader on the edge of his seat, unable to put the book down. Most editors only have time to read a few pages before making a decision; make those pages memorable!

Equally at ease in a palace, a merchant's house or a brothel, and most at home between a woman's legs, Casanova successfully straddled the worlds of the high life to which he aspired, and the low life into which he had been born.

I find her stories quite diverting," Iris admitted. It was true. They were not terribly well written, but there was something about them that was impossible to put down.

Half of an Assassin is just an Ass.

write a book they can't not buy.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

I have huge respect for Sridevi ji as a flag-bearer of the southern film industries in Mumbai for many years. I wish her all the best. And I wish 'Mom' a big success, as the trailer looks very intriguing and promising.

It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

more creepy charm than an evangelist.

I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly complicated and interesting.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

'Scandal' is great because it's intriguing and sexy, and it has a lot of play with secondary characters in situations, lots of drama.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

Jesus, I smell like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator.

From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things—as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.

Girls are like slugs—they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.