Books Quote by Mary McCarthy

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

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand…

— Sandra Brown

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

— Flannery O'Connor

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real…

— Nelson DeMille

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

— Marge Piercy

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

— Mary McCarthy

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

— E. M. Forster

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels…

— Garret Holms

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

— Iris Johansen

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

— JoAnn Ross