“So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.” — Chris Lange Copy Share Image
“I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.” — Celia Conrad Copy Share Image
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.” — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
“She's alone, Inserted so deep in her blankets; I'm going to need a map to find her.” — Tanya Watt Copy Share Image
“Jerking her blindfold back into place, he yelled, “Giddy-up!” “They only say that in cartoons, you moron.” — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
“I'll carry you." But she was already holding on, and though she knew she'd have to soon, she didn't see how she'd… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“If he sees you in this apartment he will seriously murder you and then break up with me. And I really, really… — Trevion Burns Copy Share Image
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
“What if the killer was here? He or she could be standing behind Laurel at this very moment. Laurel shivered again. She… — Tayler Marie Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end.… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
“I had the choice—I could once again pretend and recite the words that would turn me into a powerful king. I could… — Ian Tuason Copy Share Image
“Crossing the line, that's what the Highway Patrol woman said. Neely was on a gurney, his injuries deemed non-life-threatening, she was taking… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Hank Knight asked questions about Jesse Rose and an item that was taken from her crib the night she was kidnapped. His… — B.J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
“Good, Star, because you may have felt you were the one needing saving, but it was me all along. You saved me.… — Mel Ballew Copy Share Image
“We played a couple games of pool and shared a basket of fried shrimp and onion rings. He was a good player,… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
“There was an infinitesimal pause while he watched her face, as though he half expected her to recognise it, before he went… — Lee Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day.” — Barbara Avon Copy Share Image
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat.” — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
“Of such things dreams are made of, he thought. But then again what are dreams but wishes come true. -Grace Willows” — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
“But it turned out you couldn't run from your past. It always found a way to track you down.” — Toni Anderson Copy Share Image
“Regarding both Misty and myself he was egotistical, rude, obnoxious, condescending, insensitive, and mean-spirited⎯and those are his good qualities.” — Randall Kenneth Drake Copy Share Image
Daring young sleuth uncovers thrilling, dangerous, adventures goals and solves breathless suspense. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading.” — H.E. Fairbanks Copy Share Image
“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...” — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“Do not tell me what I think you're going to or I swear to God, I'm going to fly to Brazil and… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
