Oscar Wilde
Writer
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
Suspense Novels quotes
Suspense Novels
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mary McCarthy
Author
"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."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"You are the Hero of your own Story."
Nicholson Baker
Author
"I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels."
Lisa Gardner
Author
"Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott."
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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."
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