Quotes About Suspense

I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling the wires of rumour, or their purpose in so pulling. I began to wonder whether the pressure and anxiety and suspense of a terrible war had unhinged the public mind, so that it was ready to believe any fable, to debate the reasons for happenings which had never happened.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

Para Falcó, palabras como patria, amor o futuro no tenían ningún sentido. Era un hombre del momento, entrenado para serlo. Un lobo en la sombra. Ávido y peligroso. Después

El lector debe prepararse para asistir a las más siniestras escenas.

Why don't we go to the police?" "And say what? That Milady and Rochefort, Cardinal Richelieu's agents, have stolen from us a chapter of The Three Musketeers and a book for summoning Lucifer? That the devil has fallen in love with me and been incarnated as a twenty-year-old girl who now acts as my bodyguard? What would you do if you were Inspector Maigret and I came and told you all that.

I have a killer loose on the ranch and all I can think about is kissing you again.

She dropped her voice to a hoarse whisper that turned his blood to slush. "You will wake up and find me standing over your bed. You will see the flash of a blade before I plunger it into your heart. My face will be the last thing ever see.

Before you leave, wouldn't you like the message Sarah's friend left for you?" She had already started for the door and now turned. "By all means." "He said he'd destroy your husband... after he killed you.

Stupid girl. Now she was going to have to die.

DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. "I believe you owe me a kiss.

Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

Brick stood silhouetted against the frozen lake through this front window. "Be careful. It sounds like you've got at least one killer out there. Someone who thought they'd gotten away with murder. It's easier to kill after the first time, they say.

There was a spider…

Kane's gloves get pretty rank. He grabs you for a chokeslam, and you just want to faint.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

'Special 26' was a raw, real film.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.