Quotes About Suspense

sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.

I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun. He was standing one pace in from the doorway. The light was off now, but gray daylight ebbed in the airshaft window, and unfortunately I could see him. He was wearing a hat and an overcoat and a gun, and the gun was pointed at me, and his eyes were looking at me, and his eyes appeared to be made of slate.

Zachary's partner, a younger man with a moustache named Freedly— Well, no. The man was named Freedly. Zachary's partner, a younger man named Freedly with a moustache— Zachary's partner, a moustached younger man named Freedly— Freedly said, "Have you got the ring on you?

Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end." Dortmunder hated stories that were that good, but

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

A door slammed next door. The serial killer looked up and over as a flurry of white fur pounded against the other side of the fence. "Don't start with me, you little runt, or you'll be next.

It's like we're in a movie and the music is swelling and waves are crashing around us.

The hallway grew darker still as the big door closed over several guards' bodies behind them with a crunchy squish.

Jessica Fletcher

Mom, I have to go. I think this Matt character is here." "Are you sure it's him?" Julie peered into the car as the window lowered. "I see a maniacal-looking guy with brightly-colored candy in one hand, and he's waving a sickle in the other. Oh! He's beckoning me to the car. This must be my ride.

The Front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen. We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty.

Erle Stanley Gardner

You Can Die Laughing (1957) Some

Erle Stanley Gardner

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.

Andrew Mayne

Damian..." "Yes?" "Where are you?" "Wherever you want me to be." "I'll leave the door unlocked.

If you're Stephen King and you realized halfway through you've created far too many plot lines; you arbitrarily murder a few in the middle of the book. If you're George RR Martin; well, you just keep writing more books and murder them at your leisure.

La sventura si comportò secondo l'antichissimo uso delle sventure e degli avvoltoi: rimase qualche tempo sospesa su di loro, aspettando il momento opportuno per sferrare l'attacco.

Bu tatl? seste sanki tekinsiz olan bir ÅŸey varm??, ya bu sesin sahibi büyücüymüÅŸ ya da bir büyünün etkisindeymiÅŸ gibi geldi odadakilere. Üçü de tüylerinin diken diken olduÄŸunu hissettiler. [sf 184]