Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true” — Bruce A. Sarte Copy Share Image
For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“We're going balls to the walls, guys. Our sneak and peak just turned inti a hostage rescue.” — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
“Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“You say the naughtiest things for a duke.” He arched a brow. “How many dukes have you known?” She glanced up as… — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
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
“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
“Crap. I was hopin’ all things ugly had been raptured, but you’re still muckin’ up the planet.” “We must share the same… — Courtney Vail Copy Share Image
“Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“The boy was there too, stumbling through the living room horde and passing out magic mushrooms from a paper bag. His eyeballs… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“As the taxi entered the intersection, the two drivers in the attorney general’s entourage slammed on the brakes. Both Suburbans fishtailed out… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
“…He rocked against her, his body shuddering against hers again and again, until he collapsed on top of her and buried his… — Julie James Copy Share Image
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's… — Paul Buchheit 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
“Brannagh Maloney had lived with disappearances all her life. They were as familiar to her as the changing of the Fundy tides.… — Kathy-Diane Leveille Copy Share Image
“A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection: 1) "Is this one of the… — Nina Jon Copy Share Image
“I carefully returned the files to my mother’s drawer and left the house with one objective: find Christina Georgia. July 14th was… — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
“Alexa's heart jumped and skittered. She was at her favorite star's concert. And he was holding her hand!” — Jennette Green Copy Share Image
“When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can’t even… — Richard Finney 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
“I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead. And buried.” — Simona Panova 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
You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for… — Michelle Obama 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
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
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 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
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
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
“Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!” — Mary Alice Monroe 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
