Quotes About Suspense

Dead men don't bleed. A thriller title if ever there was one.

Barry Eisler

Three guys just tried to kill me in Hong Kong." "What?" "Three guys just tried to kill me in Hong Kong." "I heard you. Are you serious?" I didn't detect anything in his voice, but it was hard to tell over the phone. And he was smoother now than when I'd first met him. "You think I make this shit up to amuse you?" I said.

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

Diaz moved as though to get out. "No, ma'am," Dox said, scoping the area. "Tell me where the phone is and you stay put. Just in case there are any unfriendlies in the area." "Behind a book called Recursion, by Blake Crouch. Level three. Fiction.

Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

Murder is blue

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a gasp.

A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.

Arab terrorist, international hitman, it's all a bit Andy McNab, isn't it?

What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?

9mm was ready. But

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The Third Secret is a page turner--hard to put down as events keep happening. If you are a fan of The Da Vinci Code you will enjoy this book.

Steve Martini

In The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter (a.k.a. Hannibal the Cannibal) taunts his pursuer by saying, "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

Oh, I love horror movies, yeah.

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.