Character Quote by Fawn M. Brodie

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

— Mason Cooley

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— JoAnn Ross

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

— Niels Arden Oplev

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

— Ben Marcus

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

— Fawad Khan

Life's a mystery and I'm on an adventure.

— Erwin Barrera

“There’s a difficult line to walk between what we need to know and what falls into the realm of mystery. Walking that line often…

— Casey Tygrett

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery…

— Lisa Gardner

Judging by the volume of titles published each year, mystery readers are restless in their pursuit of literary escape. They might travel to far-flung…

— Sarah Weinman

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

— Curtis Hanson