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• I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

  Scott Foley

  Girlfriend, Hands, Scared

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

  Nelson DeMille

  Air, Trying, Pages

  Talk City Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense

  Peter Travers

  Nails, Biting, Action

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• For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

  Ken Follett

  Destiny, Anxiety, Care

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• In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Suspense Novels, Conflict, Subplots

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• I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

  Danny Boyle

  Mean, Blogging, Twists

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Should Have, Giving

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• You are the Hero of your own Story.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Suspense Novels, Stories

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• I think suspense is a big thing.

  Gina Philips

  Thinking, Think Big, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Hero, Good Luck, Coward

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• Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Issues, Stories, Integrating

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

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Success, Character, Curiosity

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• 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, Mind

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• 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

  Children, Holiday, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Lasts, Terrible

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• Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

  Sergio Aragones

  Suspense Novels, Important, Stories

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• For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Balanced, Ifs, Values

  Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Gottlieb (1997). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Tyrants, Savages

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Magic, Exotic, World

  Source: www.dotwnews.com

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• 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.

  Tom Shales

  Stars, Drama, Idols

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• You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

  Nelson DeMille

  Real, Suspense Novels, Novelists

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• The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

  Peter Travers

  Epic, Games, Romance

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• I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

  Fred Bear

  Preparation, Trying, Woods

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• It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Horror Genre, Vices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Character, Viewpoints, Action

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