Book Quote by Don DeLillo

“When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few…

— Don DeLillo

I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in…

— Isabel Allende

The name of this book is mysterious.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery…

— Anne Tyler

Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have…

— Markus Zusak

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination…

— Penny Reid

Death was a fiction till love came to reality

— Shubham Joshi

“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads…

— George Saunders

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

— Mary McCarthy

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

— Patricia Cornwell

“In Conservatory of Death we see modern culture tired and kicking at the end of a rope. It is perhaps the first "deathpunk" novel.”

— David Kerekes