Quotes About Suspense

Graham Masterton

You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?" "No." "Give it a look. Things weren't quite that crazy, but they were damn close.

lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out

Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Annie

This is a fairy tale of blood and bullets. The story of two women and three men who cannot die. Mostly. Their names are Andy, Nicky, Joe, Booker, and Nile. Nile joins them. Booker left them. This is what happens next...

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'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Manchmal war sie sich nicht sicher, wer die größere Macke hatte: der Autor, der sich diesen kranken Mist ausdachte, oder sie, die sie sogar Geld dafür bezahlte, um es sich mit Axtmördern und Psychopathen am Pool gemütlich machen zu können.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

Who's James Bond?" Zabulon inquired.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

10 PLACES TO NEVER, EVER, EVER GO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Rooms lit by a single hanging light bulb. Rooms lit by nothing. Any graveyard that isn't Arlington National Cemetery. Summer camps whose annual counselor murder rate exceeds 10 percent. Maine. "The old_____________." Hotels/motels that aren't part of giant international chains. Upstairs. Downstairs. Any log cabin anywhere on the face of the earth.

And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.

She is coming all out in …" He turned to her. "What is the word, my love? Swan skin?" "Gooseflesh, I believe he means," Sophia explained.