Quotes About Suspense

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air

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When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

Rereading 'Child 44' brought out the novel's meatier pleasures, its ability to create vivid characters in a world both alien to our own and chillingly recognizable.

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come.

Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

I started listening to 'Serial' but remember being home alone and the electricity went - I don't think I've ever been more scared!

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

'The Shining' scares me so much.

Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.

Ce n'était pas prévu. Le monde était ainsi pourtant, en suspens, en attente. Et j'allais devoir me battre maintenant.

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

Above the desk there was this framed picture of Jesus. He was reaching his hand out and making this face like he was about to get shot.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time." Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

The Ox-Bow Incident, Body and Soul, White Heat, The Third Man, The Brothers Rico, Riot in Cell Block 11

The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!

solve the old murder, she will lose not only her chance at love but may become the murderer's next victim.