I’m big on having a blistering pace. That’s one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that’s not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it’s something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn’t going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of “unperturbedness” or quietude.

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

As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show‘s success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.

‘Rainwater‘ was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It’s set in the Great Depression and based on an incident that occurred when my dad was a boy.

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

I never think about genre when I work. I’ve written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

I’m unique for a suspense author in that I don’t have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn’t even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons – I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

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.

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.

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.

Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance.

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

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

Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn’t an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book ‘On Writing’ before I read pretty much any of his fiction.

The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that’s impossible to put down until you’ve reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

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

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

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.

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

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.

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

‘Harry Potter‘ shouldn’t be children‘s first experience with suspense and plot turns.

If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.

Every story needs an element of suspense – or it’s lousy.

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.

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

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.

An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

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.

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.

It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. ‘Johnny Gaddaar’ is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper.

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you’ll have a happy life.

The beautiful thing about ‘The Strain Trilogy‘ is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.” – All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

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.

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

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.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

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

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

40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I’ve ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.

All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades’s first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

I’m a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it’s something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.

Really I’m a fan of any movie, whether it’s suspense, action, or comedy – anything that has a good story.

With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It’s often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it’s very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it’s making them jump when they’re least expecting it.

When Reason BreaksВ is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can’t handle it.

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.

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

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.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what’s going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.

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.

What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.

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.

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

What fiction could match – in drama or suspense – man’s first walk on the Moon?

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

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.

Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy.

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.

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

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. I am still on hold with regards to love. And the longer one is on hold, in suspense, on a search, the harder, paradoxically, it is to continue with a search.

I really like suspense in movies. I don’t really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it’s so fun.

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.

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective…. The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you’re free to make the novel as good as you can. You’re allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.

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

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.

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

I’d read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, ‘Please, don’t hurt this guy.’ That’s the key to suspense. It’s easy to disgust a reader. It’s much harder to make them care.

Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn’t done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can’t just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.

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

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

All I’ve really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don’t know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

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

I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

The very name of the thriller ’89’ suggests that there is suspense.

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

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give a good thrill, but it’s rarely a comfortable one.

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.

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.

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.

Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.

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.

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.

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

As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are ‘finished,’ even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.

I’ve always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone‘s problems.

You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

I’m interested in the human more than I’m interested in building suspense.

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

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

I think ‘Pretty Little Liars‘ is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There’s suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it’s going to have something for everybody.

I love Sam Raimi. ‘Evil Dead 2′ is one of my favorite films. It’s one of the best cheaper horror films I’ve ever seen. Horror films and suspense films can be made on a low budget without big stars and be very effective.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I’d wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me.

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its 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.

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

Music has always helped my films. In ‘The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,’ you can hear ‘Sunrise‘ by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

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.

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

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

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.

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.

To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

Be the hero of your own story.

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills – at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.

‘Without a Trace‘ analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.

Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.

The term ‘psychological thriller’ is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.

Just finished ‘Secrecy‘ – truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense – but much more than both.

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

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

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.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.

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.

Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.

Actually I made only one out-and-out horror picture, ‘The Beast with Five Fingers,’ though I have done a lot of suspense and mystery films, of course.

Sound design is always critical, especially when you’re doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.

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.

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.

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

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.

I write what I want to write. Period. I don’t write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don’t write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I’ll just keep writing them until they do sell–and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

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.

Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come.

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

Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story – especially in romantic suspense – demands a similar skill set.

Suspense arises naturally from good writing – it’s not a spice to be added separately.

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

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

I’m reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don’t have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you’re displaced or evicted, there’s a suspense: How will you solve that?

When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

You are the Hero of your own Story.

Great horror movies are earned. ‘Halloween’ is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they’re able to maintain getting there.

This sucks on so many levels.” Dialogue from “Jason X” Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. “Jason X” sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

I keep thinking I’ll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I’ve read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

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.

I love ‘The Guardian‘ series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.