Quotes About Suspense

This is a case without a body. The body does not come into it at all.

Somehow, vampire or not, Shaina trusted Barbayat.

Walther PPK peashooter of yours.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

And then Alvin Finch, aka BoneMan, aka Satan, toppled to his left. He bounced off the post in the middle of the room, struck the concrete next to the hammer's head with a loud slap, and lay still.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

What are you doing?" "What I've wanted to do for a long time." She couldn't move, couldn't think. She was lost in his dark eyes, and as he slowly lowered his head toward hers, she whispered, "Are you going to throttle me, then?" He was laughing when he kissed her.

Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill

'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff.

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

My guilty pleasure is watching the Investigation Discovery channel.

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

I am a fan of crime investigative series.

I think the scripts for 'Line of Duty' and 'Blood' are both asking the audience to get involved in speculating as to what is going to happen next, or what should be happening next.

When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can't, I have left it to people's imagination.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

You're never safe in 'Jane the Virgin;' that's what I'll say. You're never safe on a telenovela, that's for darn sure, and you're never safe on 'Jane the Virgin.'

I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.

The 'Friday the 13th' Jason movies were way too scary for me.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

It didn't occur to him to make allowances for the long English twilight. That twilight gave to the landscape a curious effect of suspended life. It cast upon everything (or was that, perhaps, the beer?) an eerie, magical bloom. Every mile that he went - and now he was hurrying - he felt surer and surer that he was on the verge of some shattering experience.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

Meanwhile, the duck's body entered the funnel's black terminal cloud and joined an indescribably melange of dead and dying.