Suspense Quotes

145 quotes by 109 authors

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. — Ken Follett
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing… — Jeffery Deaver
Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD… — Nelson DeMille
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. — Ben Marcus
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! — Rex Reed
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer. — Iris Johansen
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of… — Scott Turow
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion,… — Arthur Symons
I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the… — Fred Bear
I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed… — Fred Bear
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. — Sergio Aragones
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think suspense is a big thing. — Gina Philips
I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding… — Scott Foley
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Nevilleâ€™s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He… — Jeff Abbott
Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit… — Paul Buchheit
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you… — Fredric Brown
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop… — John Grisham

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