Suspense Quotes

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

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

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think suspense is a big thing.

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

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

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. "Veelox.

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

I love you. We’re getting married, and that’s the way it is. Get used to it.

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

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

He hugged her hard. "I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.

She flew into his arms. Held on tight as he swung her off her feet and hugged her so hard it hurt. She didn't care. She didn't want him to ever let go.

There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.