Top 1200 Mystery Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.
I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.
Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.