Suspense Quotes

145 Suspense quotes by 109 unique authors

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. — Jeffery Deaver
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. — Jeffery Deaver
I am the Love that dare not speak its name. — Alfred Douglas
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. — Tippi Hedren
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low… — Alfred Hitchcock
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when… — Dino De Laurentiis
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. — Damian Lewis
There is no suspense in inevitability. — Damon Lindelof
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. — George R. R. Martin
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. — Mary McCarthy
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the… — Mary McCarthy
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. — Mignon McLaughlin
I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a… — James Patterson
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars… — James Patterson
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the… — Fred Rogers
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to… — Gus Van Sant
Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama,… — Tom Shales
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. — Oscar Wilde
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh

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