Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones.

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. On most days spent in the woods, I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether or not I got anything: it has to do with how the day was spent.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.