Suspense Quotes

145 Suspense quotes by 109 unique authors

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read. — Nate Kenyon
I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. — Thomas Perry
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience… — Elie Wiesel
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or… — Michael Koryta
A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should… — Alfred Hitchcock
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both. — Philip Pullman
I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here… — Michael Shannon
If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense,… — Mike Nichols
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies. — Guy de Maupassant
What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? — Leonard Nimoy
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture. — Jayne Ann Krentz
There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is… — Winston Churchill
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's… — Steven Moffat
Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the… — Martin Luther
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. — Nelson DeMille
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in… — Ezra Pound
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time. — Irving Stone
I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare… — Todd McFarlane

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