Suspense Novels Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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

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.

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.

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

Be the hero of your own story.

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.

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

You are the Hero of your own Story.