Top 74 Quotes About Keene
#1. Loosen up, " Mr. Keene said again. "Most of your trouble, Eddie, comes from being so tight and stiff all the time. Take your asthma, for instance. Look here.
Stephen King
#2. You didn't have to adjust under the watchful eye of Gabriel Keene." "You're right. I only had to adjust under the watchful eye of Ethan Sullivan. That was an utter cakewalk.
Chloe Neill
#3. why would Mr. Keene lie, especially about something so serious?
Stephen King
#4. Mr. Keene smiled. Think what you like, that smile said. Think what you like, and I'll think what I like. All I'm telling you, Eddie, is that you're not physically ill. Your lungs don't have asthma; your mind does.
Stephen King
#5. You do trust Mr. Tugwell, do you not?"
Did he? Trust Tugwell with his secret? Perhaps. Trust him with Miss Keene? The man had fathered five children in six years. No, he did not trust Charles Tugwell with Miss Keene.
Julie Klassen
#6. I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel, Nancy told Captain Rossland.
Carolyn Keene
#7. I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.
Carolyn Keene
#8. When you're writing fulltime like I am, writing to pay the bills and keep a roof over your head and food on the table, you can't afford to have writer's block.
Brian Keene
#9. Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
Brian Keene
#10. Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!
Carolyn Keene
#11. 'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.
Brian Keene
#12. Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!"
"Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.
Carolyn Keene
#13. I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
Brian Keene
#15. Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!
Carolyn Keene
#16. I've been a fan of 'The Defenders' since childhood, and Devil Slayer was always one of my favorite members of the team - especially during J.M. DeMatteis' wonderful run on the series.
Brian Keene
#18. Something about stringing words together until you get them right is magical; that something is why I love to write.
Paul Keene
#19. George's eyes lit up as she considered that there might be a mystery to solve.
Carolyn Keene
#21. Before she turned around to face him, she wiped away the tears that had started down her cheeks. Nancy didn't cry much, but when she did, she cried in private.
Carolyn Keene
#22. Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.
Brian Keene
#24. Their eyes met, and Nancy felt a charge pass between them, like a small electric shock. Hold it, she warned herself. Since when do you respond to anyone other than Ned Nickerson?
Carolyn Keene
#25. Nancy drove to Twin Elms as fast as the law allowed.
Carolyn Keene
#27. I knew how easy it was to make people believe a lie, but I didn't expect the same people, confronted with the lie, would choose it over the truth. . . . No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie.
M. LaMar Keene
#28. We are still on our journey, still suffering and still laughing together. But I feel like the tide has turned, and I think we will have our happy ending yet. Even if it doesn't look like what we were expecting.
Meg Keene
#29. What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?
Brian Keene
#30. A low, silver sports car roared past at high speed, missing them by inches. Nancy glimpsed the man at the wheel long enough to register his dark mustache and the pipe clenched in his teeth. "What a menace," George said, shaking her head in disgust. Nancy
Carolyn Keene
#31. Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.
Brian Keene
#32. Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It'll warm you when nothing else will.
Brian Keene
#33. Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you, her friend declared.
Carolyn Keene
#34. Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along.
David Keene
#35. When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn
Carolyn Keene
#36. He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49
Donald Keene
#37. We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
Carolyn Keene
#38. Do you mind if we stop at the Hip Hop Shop? Bess asked pleadingly.
Carolyn Keene
#39. Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did, the officer observed.
Carolyn Keene
#40. Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.
Brian Keene
#41. Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.
Brian Keene
#42. I turn to my mom as she sets her purse down on the table near the front door. I think about telling her. She deserves to know about the letter, I know that, but she was so proud of the fact that I was going to attend her alma mater and be a teacher just like her... I can't do it, not yet. "Oh...
Emma Keene
#43. The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
David Keene
#44. I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof,
Carolyn Keene
#47. We're all scared. Might as well be scared together.
Brian Keene
#48. (3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM ... ?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.
Raymond Keene
#49. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.
Brian Keene
#50. Jesus Christ-"
"Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.
Brian Keene
#51. The officer said No and his mother was frantic.
Carolyn Keene
#52. I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
Carolyn Keene
#54. She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!
Carolyn Keene
#55. The others laughed and Burt said, All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!
Carolyn Keene
#56. Snoopy Ned Nickerson went to the cupboard
To find Nancy Drew a clue.
But when he got there,
Each cupboard was bare
And so there was no clue for Drew.
Carolyn Keene
#57. Ada and Isabel had been unpopular in high school. They had talked incessantly of money and social position, making themselves very obnoxious to the other students.
Carolyn Keene
#58. And to think," Ned said huskily, "only this afternoon I thought I'd lost you to another guy.
Carolyn Keene
#59. Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?"
"I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.
Carolyn Keene
#60. His insistence, George had made reservations for a flight the next day.
Carolyn Keene
#61. We are many. Our number is greater than the stars. We are more than infinity.
Brian Keene
#62. I wish I was a man. A man can do so many things. He can go to sea. He can be a soldier. He can fly. He can crawl in and out of beds. He can get drunk and into messes. Then all he has to do is sober up and take a bath and no one thinks less of him".
Day Keene
#63. Call the fire department," I said, trying hard to stay calm.
"On it." Bess said, digging into her pocket. "I'll text 911."
"Don't text, call!" I said, feeling my heart pounding in the chest.
Carolyn Keene
#64. I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".
Raymond Keene
#65. Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
Carolyn Keene
#66. Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.
Carolyn Keene
#67. In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In Laymon's Terms,' which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year.
Brian Keene
#68. There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave.
Chloe Neill
#69. Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
Brian Keene
#70. Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
Carolyn Keene
#71. Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.
Carolyn Keene
#72. Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.
Raymond Keene
#73. Do you think he's going to hurt Sam?" Bess asked. "I don't know. But it sounds like that's on the table.
Carolyn Keene
#74. I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.
Carolyn Keene
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