Carolyn Wheat Quotes

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

Carolyn Wheat

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
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• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
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  • Remember
  • War

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
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  • Imagination

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
  • Athlete

• You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Way
  • Inside

• I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • College
  • Thought

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • You
  • Way
  • Just

• Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • History
  • Movie

• Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • God
  • Bad
  • Moon

• I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• The Price Is Right can really get me going.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Me
  • Right
  • Price

• We've offered direct financial support for a range of renewable energy sources, whether it be large-scale solar, whether it be geothermal, whether it be wave power or wind power.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Support

• There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Excitement
  • Page

• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Child

• One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

  

  Carolyn Wheat
  • Writing
  • Hero
  • Reader