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I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story.
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
Sound design is always critical, especially when you're doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
If you want to laugh, see a comedy. If you want to cry, see a drama, and if you want suspense, see a thriller.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.
'Without a Trace' analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.
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.
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.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
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.
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
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.
What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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.
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.
Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
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.
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.
What I like about the Carpenter take on 'The Thing' is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.
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.
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 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.