Iris Johansen Quotes

• Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

  Iris Johansen

  Anticipation, Intense, Pleasure

  Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.101, Macmillan

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• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  Iris Johansen

  Reader

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• Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

  Iris Johansen

  Drama, Hero, Writing

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• Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Iris Johansen

  Smile, Powerful, Two

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• Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

  Iris Johansen

  Hate, Hatred, Left

  Iris Johansen (2010). “One Touch of Topaz”, p.59, Bantam

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• If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

  Iris Johansen

  Feet, Able, Ifs

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• The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  Iris Johansen

  Writing, Character, Sleep

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• Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

  Iris Johansen

  Sex, Simple, Complicated

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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  Iris Johansen

  Real, Writing, Events

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• Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

  Iris Johansen

  Done, Feels, Exception

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• I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

  Iris Johansen

  Suspense, Mystery, Solve

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• We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

  Iris Johansen

  Good Life, Believe, Moving

  Iris Johansen (2008). “Quicksand: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller”, p.191, St. Martin's Press

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• I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

  Iris Johansen

  Love, Love You, Easy

  Iris Johansen (2013). “Eve Quinn Bonnie Trilogy”, p.436, Macmillan

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• Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

  Iris Johansen

  Eye, Going Away, Why Not

  Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam

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• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  Iris Johansen

  Children, Book, Writing

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• They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

  Iris Johansen

  Men, Said, They Said

  Iris Johansen (2003). “Dead Aim”, p.186, Bantam

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• come and get it, you dumbass

  Iris Johansen

  Dumbasses

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• In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

  Iris Johansen

  Children, Giving Up, Memories

  Iris Johansen (2011). “An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night”, p.457, Macmillan

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