Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“To kiss then was the most natural thing in the world. To explore, to taste, to find out. Katie did find out.… — Frederick Anderson Copy Share Image
Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing.… — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
“Often I felt like two people. One went into the world and did the living for the other, who was stuck in… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
“Know this much:regret nothing. Each part of your journey is essential to the whole. The moment you are experiencing is as important… — Jenna Lindsey Copy Share Image
“No matterwhat he did to make Claire’s life better or show her he’d changed, these memories would always linger in the recesses… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“I’m also suddenly all over the idea of lust. Previously, I had scoffed at it. Sure, I looked at people and could… — Fen Wilde Copy Share Image
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives though. Was it revenge against Zedan for… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.” “They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.” But Brown… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“Yet the upcoming year was going to be a new phase of my life. I would get to follow my big brother to the big house. I had reached that golden age of six. Finally, I was going to experience the real deal. This was no appetizer, or tater tots, or French fries. This was the whole Ore-Ida.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the… — Daniel P. Douglas Copy Share Image
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
“If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to… — N.L.B. Horton Copy Share Image
“This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.” “Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.” “Patrick, please.… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“Eve: "She completely eye-fucked you." Roarke: "I know. I feel so cheap and used." Eve: "Shit. You got off on it. Men… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“I was feeling like I was floating two inches above the sidewalk every step of the way. Feeling, almost, a magnetic pull… — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
When Life rings your door bell and leaves a burning bag of poo on your porch don't step on it, instead put… — Sheldon Higdon Copy Share Image
“Notice the way the dirt feels under your feet, how great the air smells, how beautiful the trees are, how calm and… — Dana Marton Copy Share Image
Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
“I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd use the matches to… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
“Well, be careful,” she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her.… — Kate White Copy Share Image
“Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
“He threw himself to his knees at the stone and tore his damning testimony from the pages of its testament. He held… — Wyatt Michael Copy Share Image
“She touched him everywhere she could reach. The rounded hardness of his biceps and chest, the ripped contours of his back, his… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Cooper came back down to the darkened room about half an hour after Lucky had freed his hands. The boat was still… — S.E. Jakes Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
“Buttercup?” Trace looked concerned. “You’ve named the cows?” “Not all of them … yet. I’ll give them each a name when the… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
