Quotes About Suspense

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

'Drohi' is a thriller, quite action-oriented, at times, even violent, but blood will not be spilt at the drop of a hat.

Just as most of us prefer to watch a trapeze artist work without a net, we like to be absolutely sure that a virtuoso is giving us our money's worth, and a seemingly effortless performance, no matter how spectacular it may be, deprives us of that slightly sadistic thrill.

I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well, an exciting scene on the page will actually have a physical effect on the reader - your heart will beat faster, your adrenaline will start to flow.

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe, don't read this story if you're ever planning to eat again.

Two of the men tiptoed to the pile of brush. One of them

Jeez," said Beauvoir. "The Inquisition. I didn't expect that." "No one does," said Gamache.

They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were.

his large, expressive hands hovering over the tiny circle of blood marring her fluffy cardigan, as though like a magician he could remove the wound and restore the woman. But he could not. That wasn't his gift. Fortunately for Gamache he had others.

crevices. There was a noise in his

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it. She pulled back slightly, to look into his eyes. And then there was a shot.

You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?

I felt like a theatre-goer trapped in the middle of a long second act who hears, outside, a fire engine howling past in the direction of his own house.

True horror is all the more potent for being implicit.

Lossberg's coat-tails.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

It's all about letting the story take over.

Anything's possible in 'Line of Duty.'

Horror itself is such a magical genre.