Suspense Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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.

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 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.

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 mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

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.

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.

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

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.

'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 think suspense is a big thing.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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

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.

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

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