Suspense Quotes
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen -
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.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Sandra Brown -
There is no suspense in inevitability.
Damon Lindelof -
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.
Curtis Hanson -
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.
Barry Eisler -
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
William Gerhardie
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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 -
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
Emily Dickinson -
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
Sergio Aragones -
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
Jane Austen -
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
Terry Brooks -
I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.
Niels Arden Oplev
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It's a thriller, it's definitely not a horror film, but it has enough of the elements that also work in horror films like suspense.
Wesley Earl Craven -
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
Jonathan Swift -
It was a temporary state of grace, this upwelling of suspense and happiness, but I knew that every feeling I'd ever had was and would be temporary.
Christine Sneed -
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.
Martin Luther -
Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.
Scott Eastwood -
To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.
Moon Bloodgood
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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.
Morgan Saylor -
Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
Ezra Pound -
I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.
Michael Koryta