Quotes About Suspense

My heart was in my mouth.

Vedno sem neznansko užival v pripovednem zapeljevanju.Priznam, vše? mi je dramati?nost. Dobra zgodba mora vedno nastaviti pri?akovanja in jih razburljivo in presenetljivo zavla?evati.

For me, a good story is all about setting up expectations and delivering on them in an exciting and surprising way.

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

My childhood wasn't a movie, of course, though it did have chase sequences, fight scenes, shoot-outs, skyjacking, life and death suspense, and suicide. The plot didn't make much sense to me as a boy, but it does now. It turns out I was attending an academy of sorts, and though hopefully on different subjects, so were you. No matter what your major, you too have been studying people for a long time, carefully developing theories and strategies to predict what they might do.

Mr Kline," the voice said. "Would you mind putting Mlinko on?" "Mlinko seems to be dead," said Kline. "Appears or is?" "Both," said Kline

Click click, bang. Curtains close, and ... scene. Type 'The End'. None

I realize that I keep saying that I did not find this out and that out until later. But eventually I did, and eventually, I promise, I will tell you all about it. As John Calvin himself says, "Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

it hung above the livid, bruised land like an admonition

Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room.

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff.

There had been something very disquieting about the dinner-table downstairs. It had been laid for only three people.

Garch ahar?

Peter Pedersen

LE CHIFFRE looked incuriously at him, the whites of his eyes, which showed all round the irises, lending something impassive and doll-like to his gaze. He slowly removed one thick hand from the table and slipped it into the pocket of his dinner-jacket. The hand came out holding a small metal cylinder with a cap which Le Chiffre unscrewed. He inserted the nozzle of the cylinder, with an obscene deliberation, twice into each black nostril in turn, and luxuriously inhaled the benzedrine vapour.

He put down the receiver and looked vaguely at the paper in his hand. It was a rough piece of white wrapping paper. Scrawled in pencil in ragged block letters were the words: HE DISAGREED WITH SOMETHING THAT ATE HIM And underneath in brackets: (P.S. WE HAVE PLENTY MORE JOKES AS GOOD AS THIS)

Bond smelt the smell of danger.

Head of S., thought Bond. They're certainly giving me the red carpet treatment.

the deep voice held a hint of

first print

has been stolen by the witchdoctor.

Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.

Hi, Your Majesty, we drugged your love muffin and then let her walk out into the dark, in the snow. Her apartment is destroyed and we're not sure where she is...