“You can’t move forward with your life until you make peace with your past.” — Lisa Carlisle Copy Share Image
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense. — David Giuntoli Copy Share Image
“Life is basically a suspense thriller—except the plot twists are mostly unpaid bills and the villain is usually Monday.” — Saurabh Dudeja Copy Share Image
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“I wanted to wake with you in my arms,” he whispered. “Next time, don’t leave the bed,” he said.” — Donna Grant Copy Share Image
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all… — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
“Tonight, after we're done with the bank, we're going to finish this. Somewhere it's just the two of us. But if I… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
“Memories of last night manifested slowly from the back of her brain, every new detail hammering her heart like a war drum:… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“Damn it, Harper, I can’t be away from you for even an hour without going out of my fucking mind,” he said… — Mandy Baxter Copy Share Image
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
“Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson 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
“Kate stops grinding the knife and begins to pass it over the length of the stone. Turning her wrist, she pulls the… — Kari Aguila Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how… — Ira Glass 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
“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
“He paused just long enough for me to know I was starting to bug him. I bug a lot of people, they… — Kendric Neal 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
“Like a consolation prize, the broken heart is often granted wisdom.” — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
“Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.” — Dianne Harman Copy Share Image
![“A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those…” quote by M. Night Shyamalan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/859/m-night-shyamalan-7111_anger-and-fear_a-tv-show-where-all-of-the-characters-ar_2649664.jpg)
