Able Quote by Dan Brown

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

— Marge Piercy

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

— Tom Clancy

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

— JoAnn Ross

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

— Sergio Aragones

I think suspense is a big thing.

— Gina Philips

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

— Sydney Pollack

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

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy…

— Jess Walter

What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

— Karyn Kusama

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real…

— Nelson DeMille