Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. I am still on hold with regards to love. And the longer one is on hold, in suspense, on a search, the harder, paradoxically, it is to continue with a search.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

I love being educated by historical novels.

I love fiction and read novels constantly.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of materials might be available in archives and so forth, I realized that this book - the research, the writing - would present me with a rare opportunity to explore to a full extent the potential for suspense in a nonfiction work.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.

I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.

I spend about a year between novels

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and have this spy thriller that's not just about character but also action and suspense, they're very challenging films as a producer to make, creating stories, creating set pieces that serve this character [Ethan Hunt].

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.

A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

I spend about a year between novels.

There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.