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• 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

  Smart, Want, Next

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• I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Darkness, Doubt, Doe

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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

  Reading, Thinking, Elements

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• Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Suspense Novels, Fields

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• There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Views, Blood

  "Amber Heard Talks THE WARD and NBC’s THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 7, 2011.

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• 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.

  Corey Feldman

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview by Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

  Iris Johansen

  Drama, Hero, Writing

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• In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

  David Giuntoli

  Secret, Tvs, Viewers

  Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. March 2, 2012.

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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

  Struggle, Writing, Detectives

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Shining, Despair

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• There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

  Frank Portman

  School, Years, Way

  Frank Portman (2006). “King Dork”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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

  Art, Eye, Firsts

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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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

  Lips, Hunger, Framing

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• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

  Damian Lewis

  Movie, Thinking, People

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

  Ben Marcus

  Long, Care, Left

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.269, Vintage

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• 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.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Lisa Gardner

  Suspense Novels, Novelists

  "Lisa Gardner, author of 'Touch & Go'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Adventure, Appreciate

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• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Comedy, Tradition

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• Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

  Joshua Ferris

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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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

  Cameras, Needs, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

  Winston Churchill

  Rain, Army, Thinking

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 6, p. 6150, 1974.

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• Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Watches, Might

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