Books Quote by Patricia Cornwell Download Open image “Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?” — Patricia Cornwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Mystery Mystery novels Novel
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Judging by the volume of titles published each year, mystery readers are restless in their pursuit of literary escape. They might travel to far-flung… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“People don’t really know what anything is really like until it really happens to them.” — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
