Quotes About Suspense

I would like to do a horror film with zombies!

I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'

People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.'

I love 'The Twilight Zone,' the original black and white ones with Rod Serling's wee bit at the beginning.

If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'

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.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

As in all TV shows, and especially a show called 'Mistresses,' all is not going to be as it seems.

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

she sipped her drink and tried not to stare at Dalgliesh. But he was murderously handsome, dark as a gypsy, with sleepy, bedroom eyes, his hunter's gaze shuttered now that he was lounging relaxed in his chair, his brandy glass resting on his chest. His legs were stretched out before him…

or two. When women went missing, or

It would remain a story without end, like a suspended chord in the last measure of a song - that singular, dissonant, open sound that makes you ache to hear something more.

I heard the sound of footsteps behind me, beneath the distant swish-sound of the trucks. I looked over my shoulder. There was no one there. Which frightened me. Because I could hear him.