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

— Marge Piercy

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

“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

“You may initially find yourself at a point of re-convincing that there could be a positive twist, and that's okay. Suspense naturally becomes sweeter…

— Chinonye J. Chidolue

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

— Sergio Aragones

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

— Sydney Pollack

“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

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm…

— Dan Brown

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

— David Slade

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

— JoAnn Ross

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

— Tom Clancy

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

— Ken Follett