Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffery Deaver

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Lisa Gardner

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Sergio Aragones

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

David Mitchell

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

Beth Henley

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Dean Koontz

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Damon Lindelof

There is no suspense in inevitability.

Alfred Hitchcock

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

Antoine Fuqua

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

John Calvin

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

Jeffery Deaver

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Lisa Gardner

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Philip Pullman

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Iris Johansen

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

Scott Eastwood

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.