Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

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.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

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

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.