Suspense Novels Quotes

• 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

  Life And Love, Ideas, Life Is Like

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

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

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking, Sometimes, Enjoy

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• 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

  Strong, Clever, Believe

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• Be the hero of your own story.

  Joe Rogan

  Hero, Suspense, Stories

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

  Sergio Aragones

  Important, Stories, Building

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• 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

  Hero, Novelists, Curious

  "On the Contrary".

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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

  Mary McCarthy

  Life, Hero, Positive Attitude

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

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• You are the Hero of your own Story.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Suspense, Stories

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

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Fields, Brilliant

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Cute, Courage

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

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

  Jeffery Deaver

  Conflict, Subplots, Suspense

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

  Lisa Gardner

  Novelists, Suspense

  "Lisa Gardner, author of 'Touch & Go'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 6, 2013.

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• 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

  Real, Novelists, Way

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• 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

  Writing, People, Done

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• 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

  Writing, Violence, Thrillers

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• 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

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

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

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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Marketing

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

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• 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

  Strong, Character, Thinking

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• 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

  Real, Book, Character

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

  Judith Kelman

  Powerful, Betrayal, Lust

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• 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

  Book, Waiting, Different

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