Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“We don't know how our choices can change the course of our lives until they do. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes tragedy for… — Rachel Renee Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.” — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“You’re staring,” she said as she cut her eyes to him. Clayton lifted one shoulder in a shrug. “I like what I… — Donna Grant Copy Share Image
“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
“We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue” — melissa cutler Copy Share Image
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things -… — Rem Koolhaas 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“He shook his head. “Did you tell him he should expand the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline up to Poland?” I smiled. “Yes. Yes,… — K.S. Ruff Copy Share Image
“Cade shifted against the sheets, trying to ease his painful erection. He was going against every protocol there was. Sleeping in the… — Katie Reus Copy Share Image
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years… — Andrew Coster Copy Share Image
“I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences.” — Stephanie M. Sellers Copy Share Image
“He is so new to this ife and his abilities that he still amazes himself.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I made 'Chocolate,' no one had made suspense thrillers for a long time. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
