Quotes by Suspense The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! Evelyn Waugh hunger suspense lips It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. Ezra Pound suspense imagination brain Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it. Francis Bacon suspense prejudice learning 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 holiday children There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius. Fredric Brown suspense wish writing The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last. Gene Wilder suspense lasts funny I think suspense is a big thing. Gina Philips think-big suspense thinking I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. George R. R. Martin suspense interviews fiction The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. Gus Van Sant suspense bombs blow I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer. Iris Johansen solve suspense mystery ...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time. Irving Stone suspense eye art 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 suspense reading thinking I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction. James Rollins suspense names book I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence. James Wan suspense cameras needs Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. Jane Austen suspense ends writing Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. Jeffery Deaver suspense issues stories In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. Jhumpa Lahiri suspense jobs character Be the hero of your own story. Joe Rogan suspense-novels suspense hero Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time. John Calvin delay suspense doe It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider. Jonathan Swift spiders suspense miserable «12345»