Quotes About Suspense

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

Every playoff game is kind of like its own movie.

There's this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that's a dark film.

I'm very good at plot.

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.

'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.

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

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.

I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

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.

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.