Top 1200 Mystery Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.
I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.
I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.
I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.
Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.
Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.
You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.
I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.
With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.
The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too?
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
