Emotional Quote by Alfred Hitchcock

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I think suspense is a big thing.

— Gina Philips

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand…

— Sandra Brown

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

— Marge Piercy

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

— Tom Clancy

A thriller must be thrilling. A mystery may or may not be a thriller depending on how much breathless emotion it has, as opposed…

— David Morrell

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the…

— Carolyn Wheat

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

— Sergio Aragones

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

— Angela Lansbury

Suspense is one of the most delightful feelings that you can have! It is the feeling you get, when you have sat down to…

— Anonymous

I think there's something so attractive about mystery.

— Taylor Swift

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

— Joyce Carol Oates