Suspense Quotes
145 quotes by 117 authors
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I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
— Nicholson Baker
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
— Danny Boyle
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I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.…
— Danny Boyle
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'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
— Berkeley Breathed
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
— Robert Burns
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
— Robert Burns
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around…
— E. M. Forster
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
— Fawn M. Brodie
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Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
— E. M. Forster
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Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
— Raymond Chandler
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Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
— Tom Clancy
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The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
— George C. Scott
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
— Gene Wilder
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Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to…
— Colin Greenland
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When Reason BreaksĂ‚ is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the…
— Margarita Engle
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
— Alfred Hitchcock
Who Wrote These Suspense Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 145 Suspense Quotes, led by these top contributors: