Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.

I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.

In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you.

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback.

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.

The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find that quite difficult.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.