Suspense Quotes

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

I think suspense is a big thing.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

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

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

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

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.