Suspense Quotes - Page 7

• An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.

  John Grisham

  Writing, Littles, Pages

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• Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Believe, Hands, Giving

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• Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.

  Nate Kenyon

  Character, Successful, Bones

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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

  Jobs, Character, Fiction

  "Jhumpa Lahiri Was Abandoned by Her Editor" by Mark Follman, March 21, 2012.

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• All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

  Elie Wiesel

  Grateful, Imagination, Waiting

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• Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish. I read his book 'On Writing' before I read pretty much any of his fiction.

  Michael Koryta

  Kings, Lying, Book

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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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

  Stories, Love Story, Secrecy

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• I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

  Ernest Gaines

  Believe, Character, Creating

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

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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

  Blow, Bombs, Might

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• I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

  Jess Walter

  Crazy, Ghetto, Divorce

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• For me, to take a movie and travel the world and go and work with these cultures and an international cast and have this spy thriller that's not just about character but also action and suspense, they're very challenging films as a producer to make, creating stories, creating set pieces that serve this character [Ethan Hunt].

  Tom Cruise

  Character, Creating, Challenges

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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

  Fans, Stories, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

  Brian Boitano

  Drama, Ice, Steps

  Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Peggy Fleming (1997). “Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

  Lee Child

  Character, Games, Floating

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• 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.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Heart, Punishment

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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

  Thinking, Doe, Letters

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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• So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind.
  
  Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios.
  Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense.
  
  Is like to go to the movies for free, every day.
  
  The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for:
  Sit down, Shut up and Meditate
  (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)

  Marcelo Goianira

  Movie, Drama, Technology

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• Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime

  Alanna Knight

  Perfect, Important, Jekyll

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• Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fun, Thinking, Murder Mysteries

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• One thing I would like to do, as the director, I would really like to shoot the movie widescreen, 2.35:1, which we haven't done in any of the movies yet and I think that would really provide another opportunity for scares and suspense, particularly because since Chucky, our villain, is only two feet tall, it makes sense to define the space horizontally rather than vertically. I think that will take it to another level.

  David Kirschner

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.

  David Kirschner

  Halloween, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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

  Writing, Ends, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

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• Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Real, Writing, Pages Turning

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• Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

  Rex Reed

  Writing, Emotional, Rocks

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