Appreciation Quote by William Gerhardie

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

— Marge Piercy

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 do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

— Thomas Perry

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— JoAnn Ross

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

— Sydney Pollack

I think suspense is a big thing.

— Gina Philips

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

— Ben Marcus

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua

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