Quotes About Suspense

John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

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She didn't really die. Just got skewered for laughs, left for dead in some steaming pile of gore with her current boy toy.

He just falls and falls, and, in case it looks too much like a sequel set-up, he catches a couple of shattering ledges on the way down, and, on the chance that's not enough, we go

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

out the news a little at a time. Grant sighed. "You have something for me?" "You heard about the shootout?" "Excuse me?" "That woman in the red truck who came to see you?

Chapter the Eleventh: In Which the Plot, Behaving in Much the Manner Of a Soup to which Corn Starch Has been Added, Begins, at Last, to Thicken.

Well when I hear 'slasher' I think about the 80s.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

In '24,' you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.

a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.

She gave a little jump and hung in the air a little way above the rug, then she slowly began to be drawn downwards and dropped ..

If you like Harlan Coben, you'll love Linwood Barclay.

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.

I love thrillers. I've never made them, but I would say a really good thriller is my favorite kind of a movie. If I can get a really great thriller, you know.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

I love con-men characters in film.