The Twist Of A Knife Quotes
"I hated arguing with Hawthorne. It wasn’t just that I invariably lost. He managed to make me feel bad about even trying to win."
"Authors don’t write their books for other people. We write for ourselves."
"I love theatre. When I look back at my life, I can remember – vividly – evenings when I have felt myself to be in a state of complete happiness."
"It’s accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad."
"Nothing about her quite connected. For example, the sweatshirts and leggings she liked to wear had come straight out of Sports Locker, but she also had a Cartier watch and her shoes were Jimmy Choo."
"Every day is a single page and you have no chance to thumb forward and see what lies ahead."
"It’s just that some of us hide it better than others."
"Did you really kill her because she gave you a bad review?"
"When the police take control of you, they assume almost total power."
"My humiliation was just an enjoyable extra."
"The whisper of terror that comes from having handed over all choice, all control to representatives of the state."
"The air smelled dreadful: a mixture of sweat, urine, detergent and cheap, microwaved food."
"It’s critics who kill writers, never the other way round."
"Of all the languages in the world, officialese is the grimmest, lacking any sense of humanity."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"I never knew my parents, which is to say, I was taken from them when I was just three years old."
"Life is a journey from where I am to where I need to be, from me to my character."
"Sometimes, the role, the created truth, can consume the actor."
"My rule in life is to try and get on with everyone. Why not? You’re only in this world once, so you’ve got to make the best of it."
"I never ‘learned my craft’. But it wasn’t my fault! I never even wanted to go into acting."
"I was born in Chepstow, in Monmouthshire. My mother called me Tirian because it means ‘kind’, which is what I always try to be."
"I lost both my parents when I was very small. They were in a car accident."
"I think you’re exaggerating. It was just a few bruises."
"You have no understanding about how I feel."
"Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?"
"I’d rather too many drinks together and he invited me to sleep over."
"You write about me and I will make sure that all hell comes in your direction."
"I have no idea what you’re talking about!"
"We all have to face our own demons in the end."
"I need to describe my younger brother to you."
"Things happened very quickly and nobody noticed until it was too late."
"The annual village fête. This was little England and the two of them were incomers and hypocrites … at least, that was the perception."
"It helped that Stephen was physically small, with a voice that had not broken and baby blue eyes."
"That Stephen Longhurst was the archetypal spoilt brat, entitled, rude to the staff and cruel to animals."
"But like the crowd who packed into the little cemetery, I struggle to forgive."
"But emotions always run high when someone dies."
"They were saving each other from themselves."
"But they formed what you might call a gang of two, with Wayne very much the ringleader."
"It was a hatchet job, nothing more, nothing less – written cleverly enough to keep her on the right side of libel."
"I won’t deny it. Hatred isn’t an emotion that I would normally entertain."
"She had no idea of the sort of man she’s married to."
"I reckon she’d already made up her mind what she wanted to write long before she got here."
"I don’t know how she lived with herself and I’d almost go as far as saying that whoever killed her did the world a favour."
"You could say that I lost a mother and a brother thanks to her."
"My parents were still together when the book came out and maybe there was a chance they would have muddled through."
"Every house has its own collection of sounds that become part of its daily rhythm for those who live there."
"The way we make our bed tells us something about ourselves."
"I sat at the table for a long time, reflecting on the dilemma I found myself in."
"I tried to look casual. I just need a piece of paper to jot down a few notes about the case – that’s what I told my invisible audience."
"In the silence that followed, my own heartbeat was the only sound."
"We all wear masks, but some of us are more aware of it than others."
"You don’t need to be scared anymore. It’s over now."
"I knew I’d been backed into a corner, but, quite honestly, there was a part of me that wanted to be there."
"My whole life is spent looking for stories. Was I prepared to give up this one?"