Top 57 Suspense Novel Quotes
#1. 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.
Jennifer Armentrout
#2. An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!
Judith Kelman
#3. 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
#4. So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.
Rodman Philbrick
#5. Friendly fire was never friendly, and it was coming. Operation Stand-and-Watch was over. Did that mean Operation Bust-His-Balls was on deck?
Cristin Harber
#6. I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.
Steve Hamilton
#7. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.
Cole Alpaugh
#8. 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
#9. Because I'm attracted to you. Because you're the poster child for contradictions and I enjoy each one of them. You're funny when you're being so damn serious. You have a kind heart and protective nature that reminds me so much of my father.
N.D. Jones
#10. I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes
Lauren Bradshaw
#11. I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.
Jeffrey Westhoff
#13. Never give up no matter how tough the road seems,keep going and visualize yourself in the realm of what you are going to achieve.
Sharyan Alleyne
#14. Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.
Angelika Rust
#15. Big results require big ambitions. ~ Heraclitus
B.L. Norris
#16. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.
Humairaa Anseline
#18. I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper.
Lillian R. Melendez
#19. The word "can't" should be erased from the dictionary. It is an excuse for I don't want to even try.
J.M. Brown
#20. Dreema and you disagree. She cottons to Richmond, but you can't be weaned off Pelham. So I offer you a fair middle ground: relocate to northern Virginia. She transfers to the state morgue on Braddock Road, and you get to stay near your old beat.
Ed Lynskey
#21. 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
#23. There are only two things you'll ever need to know about me, Farin - and you should know them well. I'm very smart, and I'm very rich.
Heather O'Brien
#24. Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?
Cole Alpaugh
#25. Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?
Maria Grazia Swan
#26. All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.
Elie Wiesel
#27. I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#28. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.
Ed Lynskey
#30. William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it and I remember thinking, "You could put a gun to my head and I wouldn't put this book down." I loved that feeling - and want to give it others.
Harlan Coben
#31. Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts and argyle socks.
Genie Frisbee
#32. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Bridget Allison
#33. I don't mind my friends calling me "Thornes," but the fact of people calling me "Prickly Thornes" draws the line.
Simi Sunny
#34. Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
William Bernhardt
#35. And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth.
Keira D. Skye
#36. You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?"
"I guess I'll finish last.
Jalpa Williby
#37. Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that.
Ed Lynskey
#38. The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
Val McDermid
#39. Focus. She's Maddie. Your friend. Would you eyeball Keith or Dane's butt like that? ~ Zach
Monique DeVere
#40. 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.
Mary McCarthy
#41. The right things often happen for the wrong reason.
Alex Adam
#42. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#43. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Angel Ramon Medina
#44. Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous."
"Good thing you know better.
Jalpa Williby
#46. Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.
Scott Turow
#47. Success in life is 50% what you know and 50% who you know, and one is not worth much without the other.- Senator Edwin G. Holl
Paul Edwin Holl Esq.
#48. I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman." Mia Kensington to Colby Winters
Cristin Harber
#50. You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much.
Heather O'Brien
#51. One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective ... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
Carolyn Wheat
#52. I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.
F. Paul Wilson
#53. Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime
Alanna Knight
#54. In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.
Maynah Lewis
#55. You may be done with the past, but the past may not be done with you.
Jennifer Dwight
#56. The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman
Lisa Barr
#57. Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!
Lillian R. Melendez
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