Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

Wilbur Smith's novels make terrific holiday reading.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

I am an avid reader of Sidney Sheldon thriller novels.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

I'm a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

I didn't know anything about 'The Witcher' novels or the games, before I auditioned.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.