Effects Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effects Savages Suspense Tools Tyrants Writing
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 Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels… — Garret Holms Copy Share Image
“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
