Suspense Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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

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

You are the Hero of your own Story.

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.

There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.

Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense

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

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.