“ROMANTIC SUSPENSE - A recipe that includes a dash of desperation, a smidgen of danger, a dollop of adventure and a healthy… — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
“I've been thrown into a turbulent triangle, but even though I have deep feelings for Shiray doesn't mean my feelings will disappear… — B. Truly Copy Share Image
I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five… — Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Copy Share Image
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there… — Alfred Hitchcock 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
The term 'psychological thriller' is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Idrith didn’t want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
“If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She dribbled water over his neck and back. The towel didn't quite soak up all of it, and drops raced down his… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
“Concert pianists get to be quite chummy with dead composers. They can't help it. Classical music isn't just music . It's a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“dianemoorewriter.com February 11, 2015 · From Love Thy Neighbor" On journalism and news purists as well as why I pursued print instead… — Diane Moore Copy Share Image
“My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and… — Peggy A. Edelheit Copy Share Image
“The sound of running footsteps made them all start. Then the refectory door opened and the round, freckled face of Sister Belinda… — Sharon Bolton Copy Share Image
“The guilt over his secret was eating him up alive, but hell, the feel of her in his arms threatened to override… — Katie Reus Copy Share Image
“Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?” “Horizontal, of course.” “Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute?… — Ed Lynskey Copy Share Image
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life,… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion… — Dino De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
“The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“If the Mob was after you, the last thing you felt was alive. If the Mob was after you, it was only… — Chrys Fey Copy Share Image
“The best way to bury the truth is to present it as an intricate puzzle. Let everyone get lost in the clever… — Irina Semikop Copy Share Image
I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like… — Grace Phipps Copy Share Image
“And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down… — Kim Hornsby Copy Share Image
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“This was what they’d been told all along in the army: “It’s us or them. War’s coming. No way around it.” And… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“My body betrayed me when he was around. Something about him spoke to a darker place inside me, a feral place. A… — Jennifer Snyder Copy Share Image
“Tonight I’ve been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I’ve graduated to talking to a… — V. Alexander Copy Share Image
I always am in a role, lovely for you, for them even for myself. Yeah... Even when Im alone, I am still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The kiss, and what came later at my apartment when I helped clean you up. That was…interesting.” “Interesting is one word for… — Paige Tyler Copy Share Image
“You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
“The reality and what it meant was slowly dawning: the betrayal, deception, and omission. Clandestine meetings. Evasion under questioning. In hindsight, Dana… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
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