Books Quote by Ian Mcewan

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

— Philip Pullman

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

— Ted Gup

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

“Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other.”

— Toba Beta

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

The secret is to start a story near the ending.

— Chris Offutt

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

— Mary McCarthy

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel…

— Jonathan Lethem

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of…

— Trevor Paglen

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Flannery O'Connor

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's…

— Chang-Rae Lee