Suspense Novels Quotes:

Be the hero of your own story.

- Joe Rogan

topic: Hero, Suspense Novels, Suspense

The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.

- Mary McCarthy

source: "On the Contrary".

topic: Hero, Suspense Novels, Novelists

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.

- J. Lynn

topic: Book, Suspense Novels, Waiting

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

- Sidney Sheldon

source: Sidney Sheldon (2005). “The other side of me”

topic: Life And Love, Ideas, Life Is Like, Suspense Novels

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

- Nicholson Baker

topic: Thinking, Suspense, Sometimes, Suspense Novels

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

- Lisa Gardner

topic: Strong, Clever, Believe, Suspense Novels, Strong Character

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

- Sergio Aragones

topic: Important, Stories, Suspense, Suspense Novels

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Lasts, Suspense Novels

As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

- Mary McCarthy

source: "Characters in Fiction". Partisan Review, March/April 1961.

topic: Hero, Believe, Suspense, Suspense Novels, Day To Day

You are the Hero of your own Story.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Hero, Stories, Suspense Novels

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

- Tippi Hedren

topic: Funny, Fields, Suspense, Suspense Novels

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Courage, Color, Suspense Novels, Be Courageous

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

- Jeffery Deaver

topic: Suspense, Conflict, Subplots, Suspense Novels

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

- Lisa Gardner

topic: Novelists, Suspense, Suspense Novels

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

- Nelson DeMille

topic: Real, Way, Novelists, Suspense Novels, Protagonists

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

- Lisa Gardner

topic: Writing, People, Suspense, Suspense Novels

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

- Jayne Ann Krentz

topic: Writing, Suspense, Violence, Suspense Novels

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

- Bentley Little

topic: Jobs, Book, Character, Taco Bell, Suspense Novels

I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

- Bentley Little

source: "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

topic: Real, Fighting, Thinking, Rooftops, Suspense Novels

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

- Elizabeth Hand

source: On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

topic: Book, Thinking, Marketing, Suspense Novels, Booksellers

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

- Lisa Gardner

topic: Strong, Character, Thinking, Suspense Novels, Strong Character

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

- Sandra Brown

topic: Real, Book, Character, Suspense Novels, Character Development

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

- Judith Kelman

topic: Powerful, Betrayal, Lust, Suspense Novels, Love Lust