Books Quote by Tom Clancy

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

— Marge Piercy

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

— Karyn Kusama

I think suspense is a big thing.

— Gina Philips

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

— 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

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

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

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

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