Suspense Quotes

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

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

I think suspense is a big thing.

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.

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

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

'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.

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

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

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

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

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.