Quotes and Sayings about Suspense
"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
- William Peter Blatty
(Related: Horror, Police, Supernatural)
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Life, Courage, Suspense)
"Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense."
- Fawn M. Brodie
(Related: Life, Character, Curiosity, Suspense)
"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Disappointment, Suspense)
"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Building, Fun, Open, Wonder)
"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Conflict, Relationships, Suspense)
"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."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Responsibility, Suspense)
"Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Suspense)
"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."
- Scott Foley
(Related: Girlfriend, Being, Nothing, Now, Suspense)
"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."
- Ken Follett
(Related: Success, Anxiety, Care, Destiny, Suspense, Words)
"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."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Life, Fear, Film, Luck, Suspense)
"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."
- Dino De Laurentiis
(Related: Love, Drama, Emotion, Suspense)
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Day, Suspense, Words)
"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."
- Mary McCarthy
(Related: Suspense, Will)
"I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds."
- Todd McFarlane
"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Cowards, Hardship, Suspense)
"Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Death, Life, Mystery)
"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."
- James Patterson
(Related: End, Mind, Suspense, Writing)
"I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: Time, Reading, Suspense)
"I think suspense is a big thing."
- Gina Philips
(Related: Suspense)
"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."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: Anticipation, Ending, Favorite, Holiday, Moments, Pleasure, Suspense)
"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."
- John Sevier
(Related: Army, Being, Country, Suspense)
"I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven."
- Emily Watson
(Related: Character, Silence)
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Hope, Suspense, Will)