Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

My understanding of romance novels was that it was on the beach with a glass of rose.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

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

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Novels are a safe way to talk about things.

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

I never even had the time to read novels.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.

Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book 'On Writing' before I read pretty much any of his fiction.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.