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• Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Darkness, Doubt, Doe

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• Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

  Tippi Hedren

  Funny, Suspense Novels, Fields

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• There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

  Frank Portman

  School, Years, Way

  Frank Portman (2006). “King Dork”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

  David Giuntoli

  Secret, Tvs, Viewers

  Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

  Iris Johansen

  Drama, Hero, Writing

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• You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
  What?
  I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Smart, Want, Next

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• There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Views, Blood

  "Amber Heard Talks THE WARD and NBC’s THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

  Raymond Chandler

  Struggle, Writing, Detectives

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

  James Lee Burke

  Reading, Thinking, Elements

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• I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, Creating, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.

  Corey Feldman

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview by Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Shining, Despair

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• ...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

  Irving Stone

  Art, Eye, Firsts

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lips, Hunger, Framing

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

  Damian Lewis

  Movie, Thinking, People

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• Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

  Ben Marcus

  Long, Care, Left

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.269, Vintage

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• We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

  Lisa Gardner

  Suspense Novels, Novelists

  "Lisa Gardner, author of 'Touch & Go'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Perfect, Imagination, Black

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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Adventure, Appreciate

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• As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Thinking, Play

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Attitude, Philosophy, Long

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• One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.

  Carolyn Wheat

  Hero, Writing, Hands

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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Phone Calls

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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

  JoAnn Ross

  Life And Death, Romance, Plot

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