Quotes About Author

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

It's almost kind of satisfying when you get direct proof that someone stole your bit. It makes the times you had the paranoid suspicion feel less crazy.

A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.

I am highly suspicious of food which takes a long time to be imported.

McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

Profiling, listening in on anyone and everybody who looks suspicious, or interviewing Muslims in a more intense way than interviewing Christian refugees is all acceptable.

My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.