Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

Im a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.

Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.