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“What I like about the Carpenter take on ‘The Thing’ is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.”
“Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it’s relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.”
“’Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.”
“I prefer thrillers but when it’s thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.”
“I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.”
“There is no suspense in inevitability.”
“I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.”
“The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.”
“In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.”
“One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.”
“Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.”
“I’ve said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.”
“For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.”
“I think suspense is a big thing.”
“’Duel’ is one of the greatest suspense films of all time.”
“Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I’ve since written eight suspense novels.”
“I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a ‘high suspense’ writer.”
“I’m a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with ‘The Conjuring.’”
“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.”
“Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.”
“In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.”
“I’m a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.”
“I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I’d wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me.”
“A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.”
“Suspense arises naturally from good writing – it’s not a spice to be added separately.”
“What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.”
“Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.”
“I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.”
“I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.”
“I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don’t really write in that idiom.”
“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.”
“I like to play characters that get to do it all – to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that’s what’s fun.”
“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”
“To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.”
“I keep thinking I’ll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I’ve read about 20 Dick Francis novels.”
“I’m interested in the human more than I’m interested in building suspense.”
“’Without a Trace’ analyzes criminal behavior in the special context of a disappearance. We consider it a suspense thriller.”
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”
“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.”
“The term ‘psychological thriller’ is an elastic one these days, tagged liberally on to any story of suspense that explores motivations while keeping blood and chainsaws to a minimum.”
“Every story needs an element of suspense – or it’s lousy.”
“I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.”
“Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.”
“I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.”
“The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That’s where the suspense comes from.”
“Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can’t handle it.”
