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“For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.”

Ifs Values Suspense Balanced

Book:Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews

“Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.”

Process Mystery Emotional Intellectual Suspense

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“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.”

Care Destiny Reader Anxiety Suspense Principal

Author:Ken Follett

“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.”

Writing Real Today Reader Lucky Pages Psychological Suspense Compelling Dishes Immoral Stylish Pages Turning

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“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.”

Years Wish Novel Hell Masters Edges Suspense Seats Pace Nails Maintaining Good Writers Biting Breathtaking

Author:Nelson DeMille

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

Long Care Left Long Time Suspense Long Time Ago

Book:The Flame Alphabet

Source: The Flame Alphabet

“Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!”

Writing Matter Acting Subjects Rocks Emotional Huge Profound Suspense Packs Exquisite Subject Matter

Author:Rex Reed

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

Mystery Solve Suspense

Author:Iris Johansen

“Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.”

Writing Situation Mystery Hero Drama Suspense Puzzles Thrust Heroines

Author:Iris Johansen

“Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.”

World Reading Novel Drug Research Suspense Range Poison Equity Pills Great Reading

Author:Scott Turow

“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.”

Art Dream Reality Passion Conscious Suspense

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.”

Trying Process Creatures Instinct Woods Preparation Suspense Excitement Hunts Deer

Author:Fred Bear

“I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. On most days spent in the woods, I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether or not I got anything: it has to do with how the day was spent.”

Trying Feelings Home Process Differences Taken Creatures Instinct Woods Honestly Preparation Suspense Excitement Coming Home Hunts

Author:Fred Bear

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

Stills Important Stories Building Theory Suspense Short Story Suspense Novels

Author:Sergio Aragones

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

Novel Conflict Suspense Suspense Novels Subplots

Author:Jeffery Deaver

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

Humans Stories Issues Suspense Integrating

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“I think suspense is a big thing.”

Thinking Bigs Suspense Big Things Think Big

Author:Gina Philips

“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.”

Hands Scared Suspense Girlfriend Now And Then Being Scared

Author:Scott Foley

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

Fiction Novel Suspense San Francisco Earthquakes Evoke Screenwriters Aftermath Debut

Author:William Bernhardt

“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.”

Heart Voice Fiction Responsibility Written Majors Revenge Suspense Twelve Examination Astonishing Thrillers Stunning Debut Heart Pounding

Author:Jeff Abbott

“Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.”

People Ifs World Kind Littles Seems Bits Seeing Adventure Little Bit Areas Work Out Likes Suspense Uncertainty Excitement

Author:Paul Buchheit

“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.”

Ifs Writing Ends Stories Courses Wish Middle Genius Conflict Hardest Suspense Get Away Convincing

Author:Fredric Brown

“An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.”

Knows Way Writing Littles Stories Pages Suspense Crucial Hints Outlines

Author:John Grisham

“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.”

Giving Believe Feelings Hands Spirit Accepting Lord Anxiety Benefits Suspense Within You Our Lord Incomplete

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.”

Character Successful Complexes Bones Suspense Genre Fascinating Load Terrific

Author:Nate Kenyon

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

Trying Book Reading Suspense Genre Reading Books

Author:Thomas Perry

“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.”

Matter Character Jobs Certain Speak Fiction Information Painting Sentences Breathe Plenty Suspense Soil Enabling Conveying

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“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.”

Firsts Next Waiting Imagination Pleasure Novel Source Reader Grateful Satisfaction Suspense Thrillers Knowledge Experience

Author:Elie Wiesel

“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.”

Thinking Writing Book Lying Fiction Influence Kings Standards Foolish Suspense

Author:Michael Koryta

“A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.”

Men Should Left Imagination Relationship Aim Suspense Excitement

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

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

Stories Finished Love Story Tales Suspense Secrecy

Author:Philip Pullman

“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.”

Play Character Fun Bits Comedy Suspense Pathos

Author:Michael Shannon

“If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.”

Ifs Want Different Helping Fun Easy One Thing Masters Practicals Invisible Suspense Different Things Legends God Help

Author:Mike Nichols

“Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.”

Men Made Desire Politics Enemy Suspense Anguish Arrivals

Book:Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...

Source: Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...

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

Men Firsts Walks Fiction Drama Moon Suspense Exploration Space Exploration

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“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.”

Writing I Can Novel Violence Extremes Handle Suspense Torture Thrillers Suspense Novels

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz

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

Force Powerful Novel Betrayal Lust Tales Redemption Suspense Unforgettable Mesmerizing Suspense Novels Love Lust

Author:Judith Kelman

“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.”

Thinking Knows Important Happens Three Hours Mirrors Constant Storytelling Suspense Tension Nobody Knows

Author:Richard Condon

“There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!”

Thinking World Two Millions Clear Land Fields Europe Rain Army Soldier Suspense Alas Hush Tramps Gravel Splashing German Soldiers

Author:Winston Churchill

“The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.”

Feels Enemy Comedy Trouble Tradition Series Suspense Shakes Shake It Up

Author:Steven Moffat

“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.”

Should Might Jesus Christ Watches Suspense

Author:Martin Luther

“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.”

Way Real Situation Danger Suspense Novelists Helpless Protagonists Suspense Novels

Author:Nelson DeMille

“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.”

Imagination Brain Development Enormous Suspense Makers Hypothesis Fluid Reserved Presenter

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

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

Firsts Art Moments Shows Eye Artist Creation Strange First Time Horrible Suspense

Book:Irving Stone, three complete novels

Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels

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

Horror Elements Suspense Sci Fi Sci Fi Movie

Author:Moon Bloodgood

“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.”

Thinking Writing Book Real Character Stories Romance Novel Development Harder Love Story Suspense Character Development Real Character Suspense Novels

Author:Sandra Brown

“As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.”

People Writing Book Belief Lines Hero Members Pages Draws Opening Suspense Family Members Plight

Author:Andrew Gross

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

Suspense Novelists Suspense Novels

Author:Lisa Gardner

“I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.”

Thinking Appeals Suspense

Author:Lisa Gardner

“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.”

People Knows Writing Done Novel Crime Suspense Suspense Novels

Author:Lisa Gardner