The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you… — John Grisham 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 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
It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“I don't know,when they were giving out best friends at the carnival, he was all they had left-Nate” — Alana Henry Copy Share Image
As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
“Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.” — Jennifer Perry Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes,” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.” — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.” — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than… — Kathryn Mattingly Copy Share Image
“So much better for you to long for what you can never have, than to get it and have to face the… — Chameleon Author Copy Share Image
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“George lay on his bed, wide awake despite the early hour, imagining over and over Jeffrey’s demise. He didn’t feel guilty. Jeffrey… — Matt Francis 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
“Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
“Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange: a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. 'Johnny Gaddaar' is the opposite… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
“Then it’s decided. In the end, we are just as mortal as man. But while God will save a few, we will… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
“Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?” — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
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