66 Suspense Quotes for You to Enjoy

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Oscar Wilde

Funny Hope Will Terrible Suspense Last

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

Suspense is worse than disappointment. Robert Burns

Disappointment Worse Than Suspense

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. Mignon McLaughlin

Strength Cowards Only Brave Suspense Endure Even Hardship

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. Emily Dickinson

Age Witness Decision Year Doubt Final Indeed Admirers Shall Crowds Perfect Delight Reach Make Bidding How Am Very Expect Handsome Suspense While Them Then Await Amherst Growing Fast Belle

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth. Jason Statham

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of. Jeffery Deaver

Ride Responsibility Roller Coaster Think Possibly Give Thriller Writer Exciting Most Readers Answer Roller Roller Coaster Ride Suspense Story Coaster Describe

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. Jeffery Deaver

Conflict Relationships About Suspense Even Novels

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Berkeley Breathed

Experience First Harry Harry Potter Plot Potter Suspense Children Turns

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.' Bill Condon

Job Made Monsters Everything Way Definitely Direct Kinsey Horror Horror Movies Scenes Wrote Always Doing Been Gods Done Suspense Informed Movies Shot Even Enjoyed Earlier

Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy. Bobby Deol

Good People Comedy Will Films Run Suspense Irrespective Whether Watch

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging. Chuck Hogan

Beautiful Journey Drama Mood Dread High Fable Ability Trilogy Unbearable About Support Beautiful Thing Gore Domestic Tastes Move Suspense Which Epic Strain Swings Thing Designed Creeping

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

People Think Scared Tension Like Suspense Movie

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. Danny Boyle

Impossible Almost Days Suspense Mean Twists

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. Danny Boyle

People Cinema Impossible Ending Single Before Every Never Almost Days Knows Audience Single Person Blogging Person Endings Done Suspense Where Mean Your Film Seats Twists

I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing. Ed Harris

Beautiful Great Character Rights Book Strong Drama Montana Kim Some Pretty About Writer Written Bought Feel Named Got Real Real Character Suspense Screenplay Really Thing

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. Fawn M. Brodie

Life Character Me Begins Curiosity Suspense Crawling Flesh Show Whose

I think suspense is a big thing. Gina Philips

Big Think Suspense Big Thing Thing

'Duel' is one of the greatest suspense films of all time. Greg Mottola

Time Films All-Time Greatest Duel Suspense

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary. H. P. Lovecraft

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too. James Patterson

Book Writing Too Mind-Boggling Trial Out Would Exactly Like Know How Am End Did Suspense Little Turn

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head. James Patterson

Chapter Try Car Big Else Easy Something Something Else Having Write Never Head Like Up Blow Going Suspense Movie Pace Turn Turn-On Your Keeps Things Flowing

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.' James Wan

Big Tension Big Fan Goal Suspense Fan Filmmaking

Suspense Quotes

No more suspense quotes