Top 292 Suspense Quotes & Sayings

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

I think suspense is a big thing.

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

The very name of the thriller '89' suggests that there is suspense.

I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

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

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.

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

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

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.

A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

There is no suspense in inevitability.

One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

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

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense

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

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Sound design is always critical, especially when you're doing a thriller with a lot of suspense and tension.

Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

'Without a Trace' analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

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

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?