Quotes About Suspense

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand how the mystery ultimately will be solved.

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Hun himlet med øynene og viftet dramatisk med armene. Kommer hun til å gi etter for ham, og besvime i hans sterke armer? Eller vil hun sky ham, la ham subbe seg tilbake til Brizzie med halen mellom beina? Hun smilte ertende. Følg med i neste episode.

Dennis killed me!

A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing.

Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone.

every flash of moonlight off a leaf looked like bared white teeth, the tree over the car looked dense with shadow-things hanging ready to drop. Every sound had me leaping around, but there was never anything to see.

I could get a fedora and a trench coat and a wisecracking sense of humor; she could sit poised at hotel bars with a slinky red dress and a camera in her lipstick, to snare cheating businessmen…. I almost laughed out loud.

Unreadable stares everywhere, all of them pulsing with danger,

It was 4:00 p.m. Chris would be in his car, she was pretty certain, watching Boss Man pull out of the parking lot. He would wait a few seconds to be certain the

When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.

I hate jump scares. I really hate them. I think there's nothing special about being able to startle someone - that's an involuntary reflex, and it makes people laugh.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.

I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

dando un golpe fuerte en la puerta. Todos se quedan un momento

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.