Aftermath Quote by William Bernhardt

Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's…

— William Bernhardt

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

— Samuel Goldwyn

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night,…

— Karen Thompson Walker

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 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 was pleasantly surprised with 'Salvage.' I went to Australia and New Zealand for the novel and met a lot of people who had…

— Jesmyn Ward

“But I suspect the reported number of good novels this year is a result of 9/11 and all the other alarums of recent years.…

— Sebastian Barry

“In San Francisco, two people actually saw the earthquake. Jesse Cook, the police sergeant on duty in the produce market, saw it a moment…

— Gordon Thomas

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

— Junot Diaz

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

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

— Don DeLillo

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

— Ross Macdonald