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The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
Gene Wilder
The anticipation is agonizing. I wish it would continue.
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Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
John Calvin
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Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
Fred Rogers
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Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.
Sextus Empiricus
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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Sara Zarr
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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
Ada Leverson
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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.
James Rollins
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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Ken Follett
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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.
Gus Van Sant
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
Jonathan Swift
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I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.
Scott Foley
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The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
Dino De Laurentiis
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I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
Lisa Gardner
19.
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.
Billy Bob Thornton
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
Ezra Pound
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
Raymond Chandler
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Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
Philip Pullman
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I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.
James Lee Burke
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There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.
Fredric Brown
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That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
Michelle Yeoh
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Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.
Mason Cooley
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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
Jane Austen
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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
Jeffery Deaver
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Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.
Scott Eastwood
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Saint Augustine
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Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
Lisa Gardner
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In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.
David Giuntoli
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Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Lisa Gardner
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
Cassandra Clare
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I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.
James Wan
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
Irving Stone
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I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
Cecile de France
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
Marge Piercy
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You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.
Michelle Obama
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The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
Evelyn Waugh
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I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.
Mike Nichols
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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
Francis Bacon