Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergio Aragones

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

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.

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

Simon Mawer

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

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.

Ruth Rendell

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Dean Koontz

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

Billy Bob Thornton

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

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Don DeLillo

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

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.

Sergio Aragones

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

Scott Eastwood

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

Jeffery Deaver

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

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.

Iris Johansen

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

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.

Lisa Gardner

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