Quotes About Suspense

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

Maybe somewhere on the Nostromo there had been a similar scene, with Dallas hanging there, stuck in place like the victim in a massive spider's dense webbing.

you can follow along.

midnight kill. "Next, we have to see

Mark Charon, who had just arrived.

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From Russia with Love

room stood Spector with a gun in his hand, pointed at the studio ceiling. Pang says, "John had his fingers in his ears, going, 'Phil, if you

There is an art to the building up of suspense.

Something was scratching on the pane. Again.

I want to find the murderer too. I don't like having my journeys interrupted by chloroform.

There's a nasty story…' Dot began. 'Do tell,' encouraged Phryne.

Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.

I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that sharp-nosed aunt of yours catching us when we find the diamonds." "What diamonds?" "Think positive for once...Which would you rather, diamonds or the remains of a murdered maidservant? It's all a question of attitude.

Zo snel kon het gaan: een paar dagen geleden had ik me nog beklaagd over het geheimzinnige gedoe van de Wachters en nu richtte ik zelf een geheim genootschap op. Het ontbrak er nog maar aan dat ik vroeg of iedereen bij het verlaten van mijn kamer een blinddoek wilde voorbinden.

Gideon mi lasciò, si alzò e si avvicinò a Mr Whitman. «Dovrò ammanettarlo» disse con un sospiro. «E poi bisogna fasciare la ferita del dottor White.» «Sì, e poi dobbiamo liberare gli altri dalla stanza del cronografo»aggiunsi. «Ma prima sarà meglio mettersi d'accordo sulla storia da raccontare.» «E prima ancora devo assolutamente baciarti» concluse Gideon abbracciandomi di nuovo.

You shouldn't give him a ride, Grace!" Meme snapped. "He's likely to strangle you and dump your body in the lake." "Is this true?" I asked Callahan. "I was thinking about it," he admitted.

Like the locked room upstairs? Listen. I've read Jane Eyre. That better be a red room of pain up there, and not your ex-wife.

This is why America loves Stephen King so much; he keeps us on the edge of our seats until it hurts.

Suspense is good for people. It makes us stronger. This is why America loves Stephen King so much; he keeps us on the edge of our seats until it hurts. He also knows that all people, whether groundskeepers at Fenway or privileged young fucks, are capable of going insane if placed under the right circumstances.

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.