Suspense Quotes

Donald Trump is talking about running for president. He hasn't made an announcement, but I want to tell you something. The fake suspense is killing me.

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

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

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

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

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

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

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

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

I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

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.

It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

...she had a new handbag to go with her new attitude.

My mistake was that I didn't kill you.

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca. Dylan fans make pilgrimages to Hibbing.

She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

The battle rages everyday. In the Arena of God

She tugged on his hair. "I'll have you know I'm no weakling." He grinned and kissed her forehead. "No, it takes a strong woman to kill a truck.

A smart woman knows when to listen to her man." Her man? "He is most definitely not my man. He's not my type." "Type? If he was any more your type, he'd have you sitting in his lap.

What is the silence of six and what are you going to do about it?

Take me inside. Show me if a fireman knows how to start a fire.

Oh my God. I didn't. I couldn't have. No. no, no. Holy Crap, I did. I just shot Jason Pierce in the chest with a taser.

Sometimes, 'someday' means 'I know it will never happen'.

We're here and we prey on you.We target you.We groom you.

Sifting through scattered memories is like sifting through sand. Some remain, some simply slipaway…– TARA

I wonder if every girl yearns for her father’s love, almost like waiting to catch the moon hiding in the trees—beautiful, yet so eternally elusive.-MUKTA

It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.-MUKTA

The truth remains quiet inside us, floundering like a battered bird, desperately wanting to spread itswings and fly away.-TARA

In the stillness, our eyes do all the silent talking. Our chests move with heavy breathing and desire pours out through our pores. It's unmistakable.

His youth was a wingless Dodo.

Don't sit back and watch other people live out your dreams

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with.