Books Quote by Marge Piercy

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Sergio Aragones

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

— Tom Clancy

“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

Suspense is one of the most delightful feelings that you can have! It is the feeling you get, when you have sat down to…

— Anonymous

I think suspense is a big thing.

— Gina Philips

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives…

— Andrew Gross

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

— JoAnn Ross

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

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

“You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing…

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Ben Marcus