Quote by Douglas Adams

“I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part…

— Orson Scott Card

“Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence…

— John Gardner

“Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.”

— Craig Hart

“But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious.”

— Karel Čapek

“Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing..”

— Nanette L. Avery

“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Some things are too important to ever be fully forgotten, but too dangerous to leave commonly known.”

— Brian Harmon

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“All moments matter. We just rarely know how important they are until the chance to act on them has already passed.”

— A.L. Jackson

“Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.”

— Sidney Zion