Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

Everything cannot go right all the time.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

There are times when things are not going according to plan, and of course, you never want those times.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks and bad behavior.