Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.

I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

I enjoyed Adam McCormick, it was this odd mix of coming-of-age, of horror, of suspense, of almost romance. These kind of disparate elements that for some reason blend really nicely into Jamie Marks is Dead quiet story. And I like that the scope of the film is very intimately focused. It's really fascinating and I didn't quite get the script at first, and I liked that, it made me want to keep thinking about it.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.