Quotes about Suspense

Suspense is worse than disappointment. Votes: 8

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. Votes: 8

There is no suspense in inevitability. Votes: 7

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. Votes: 7

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Votes: 6

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. Votes: 6

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. Votes: 6

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too. Votes: 6

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. Votes: 6

I think suspense is a big thing. Votes: 4

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last. Votes: 4

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. Votes: 4

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. Votes: 4

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears. Votes: 4

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider. Votes: 4

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. Votes: 4

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. Votes: 4

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting. Votes: 4

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps. Votes: 4

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. Votes: 4

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love. Votes: 4

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. Votes: 4

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Votes: 4

Suspense is worst than disappointment Votes: 3

Suspense is worst than disappointment. Votes: 3

Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. Votes: 3

Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious cocktail party. Votes: 3

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. Votes: 3

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope. Votes: 3

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. Votes: 3

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. Votes: 3

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-. Votes: 3

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. Votes: 3

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. Votes: 3

Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Votes: 3

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. Votes: 3

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. Votes: 3

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling. Votes: 3

You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories! Votes: 3

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. Votes: 3

If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger. Votes: 3

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. Votes: 2

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. Votes: 2

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. Votes: 2

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. Votes: 2

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center. Votes: 2

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. Votes: 2

To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them? Votes: 2

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. Votes: 2

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of. Votes: 2

I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe. Votes: 2

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 able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about. Votes: 2

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. Votes: 2

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. Votes: 2

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. Votes: 2

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. Votes: 2

Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense Votes: 0

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies. Votes: 0

I mostly read suspense novels, but I do occasionally read spiritual stuff. Votes: 0

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 0

Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 0

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. Votes: 0

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense. Votes: 0

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense. Votes: 0

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. Votes: 0

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit! Votes: 0

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor. Votes: 0

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. Votes: 0

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it. Votes: 0

Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading! Votes: 0

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense. Votes: 0

I read suspense and horror, somethings that intrigue me. I have always been fascinated by death. Votes: 0

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? Votes: 0

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. Votes: 0

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. Votes: 0

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer. Votes: 0

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer. Votes: 0

Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. Votes: 0

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force! Votes: 0

Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read. Votes: 0

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. Votes: 0

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! Votes: 0

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story. Votes: 0

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. Votes: 0

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. Votes: 0

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. Votes: 0

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power. Votes: 0

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time. Votes: 0

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end. Votes: 0

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way. Votes: 0

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense. Votes: 0

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come. Votes: 0

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime Votes: 0

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. Votes: 0

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading. Votes: 0

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page. Votes: 0

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. Votes: 0

I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one. Votes: 0

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. Votes: 0

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out. Votes: 0

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both. Votes: 0

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page. Votes: 0

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start. Votes: 0

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama. Votes: 0

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. Votes: 0

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense. Votes: 0

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy. Votes: 0

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. Votes: 0

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem. Votes: 0

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture. Votes: 0

There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing. Votes: 0

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is talking about running for president. He hasn't made an announcement, but I want to tell you something. The fake suspense is killing me. Votes: 0

I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle. Votes: 0

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch. Votes: 0

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real. Votes: 0

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game. Votes: 0

There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear. Votes: 0

Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett. Votes: 0

I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it. Votes: 0

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films. Votes: 0

I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films. Votes: 0

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great. Votes: 0

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it. Votes: 0

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me. Votes: 0

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly. Votes: 0

History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams' prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page. Votes: 0

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today. Votes: 0

It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction. Votes: 0

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. Votes: 0

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character. Votes: 0

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. Votes: 0

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious. Votes: 0

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally. Votes: 0

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. Votes: 0

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being. Votes: 0

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally. Votes: 0

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense. Votes: 0

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now. Votes: 0

His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.("Introduction") Votes: 0

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what. Votes: 0

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun. Votes: 0