Spy Novels Quotes

#1. In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.

Gayle Lynds

#2. Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.

Alan Furst

#3. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.

Christopher Bollen

#4. You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Ian McEwan

#5. Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?

Alan Furst

#6. Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Zubin Mehta

#7. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Nikki Reed

#9. Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.

Tom Greer

#10. Fast never saw us go.

W. Bruce Cameron

#11. In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Jan Egeland

#12. We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Montesquieu

#13. Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace.

Dean Koontz

#14. I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

Garth Brooks

#15. Widow Joyner is repacking a trunk with clean clothes when I return. She looks up as I approach, and her expectant smile instantly disappears. "What happened?" "The reverend and I had a theological disagreement that ended in a permanent schism." "So ... no congratulations are in order?

Rae Carson

#16. The pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow
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Alexandre Dumas

#17. Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.

Jordan Knight

#18. How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#19. When a woman has five cats, she doesn't have to be 'made crazy'

Alan

#20. Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again."
"Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

James A. Owen

#21. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde