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Quotes About Suspense

Hmmm... that's interesting.""What?""There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.
~ Derek Landy
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
~ Patricia Highsmith
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.
~ Sophy Burnham
When you make a thriller/horror, darkness is [your] friend, because it lets the imagination go wild and what not. So you always end up going into darkness.
~ Jaume Collet-Serra
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.
~ Jan Struther
Is this what it's like for you—you walk in on naked people?" he asked. "The kind of people who you never, ever want to see naked in the first place?" "It happens more often than you'd think," I said. "No wonder you shoot people and blow up things," he said. "That is no way to live.
~ Jana Deleon
I'm not getting near that cat as long as he's trigger-happy," Ida Belle said. "A cat with a loaded gun and the ability to fire it is what a lot of nightmares are made of.
~ Jana Deleon
I stepped off the Learjet at the private airfield just before dawn. I'd been on the plane exactly seventeen hours, twenty-six minutes and fourteen seconds, wearing the same eight-hundred-dollar dress I'd worn when I killed a man twenty-five hours earlier.
~ Jana Deleon
Ida Belle grabbed the purse, her arms dropping a bit, then set it on the coffee table. I leaned over as she pulled out a small retail store. Nine-
~ Jana Deleon
A traditional mystery is a whodunit, whereas a thriller is a how-can-we-stop-them-from-doing-it. As you compare these seemingly opposite subgenres in Figure 1.1, you'll note that although they differ in essential ways, they share a fundamental element—the use of suspense.
~ Jane K. Cleland
A hole about six feet long, two feet wide, and four feet deep. A shovel lay beside the hole. She
~ Jason Pinter
quien se acostumbra a vivir en la espera nunca consiente del todo su término, es como si le quitaran la mitad del aire.
~ Javier Marías
why was Weeks virtually
~ Ed McBain
Edgar Wallace
~ CHAPTER XVII
ROSS I hear a kind of … rushing sound, like a … wooooosh!, or … wings, or something. MARTIN It's probably the Eumenides.
~ Edward Albee
When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.
~ Bill Burr
I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It can do so much.
~ Ari Aster
Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
~ D. B. Weiss
Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.
~ Rob Manuel
When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.
~ Dennis Farina
When you're watching a Hitchcock movie, you, for most of the movie, are playing the guessing game. What's the endgame? What's the plot? How are these people involved? It's the best way to tell the story, and as a viewer, that's what you want to experience.
~ Alex Kurtzman
Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!
~ Ransom Riggs