Quotes About Suspense

with a duffel bag over his shoulder.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

In the cavity were two handguns with ammunition clips.

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth

We get it. Plants are pretty and smell nice. For us, the new and exotic frontier is season finale cliff-hangers.

The Gray Assassin?" Vincent exclaimed. "Who isn't here to kill us? They don't want us kind of dead, they want us extremely dead!

But don't get caught.

You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable story-telling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.

Spook stood up as nonchalantly as he could, then fled into the night.

Most horror movies are certainly that.

The house wasn't locked. Wallander looked

Linda recognized the car next to it as Höglund's. Linda fingered the Swiss army knife in her pocket, but this was not a night for slashing tires.

It had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Juliana in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau; and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours after that it was highly probable I had killed her.

The days, whether lapsing or lingering, were a stiff reality; the suppression of anxiety was a thin idea; the taste of life itself was the taste of suspense.

Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination. (Sir Edmund Orme)

It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn't stop.

Existía un secreto en Bly… quizá un familiar inmencionable recluido en un insospechado confinamiento?

Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense.

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'