Heather Brooke Quotes

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesn't?

I'd love to make a thriller.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think that's an interesting theme.

I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

I like mysteries.

I've been in an Agatha Christie called 'The Sittaford Mystery,' which I enjoyed, but 'The Pale Horse' has a real sense of intrigue and the jigsaw pieces fitting together.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.