Iris Johansen Quotes

Anticipation makes pleasure more intense

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

come and get it, you dumbass

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

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

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.

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

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

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His armstightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as Ilive.

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

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.