The Suspense....!
David Palumbo
“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it”.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock
Mark Summers
“If it's for you, it'll find you."
- Urja Dhawan, Ever Forever
- Urja Dhawan, Ever Forever
Chase Stone
“They say the stars are full of secrets, kept quiet by the silence of the night.”
- L. Danvers, Conspiracy Unleashed
Gary Kelley
"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."
- C. S. Lewis
Niklas Asker
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
- Mary McCarthy
- Mary McCarthy
Tallulah Fontaine
“Suspense is worse than disappointment”.
- Robert Burns
- Robert Burns
Daniel Goldfarb
“The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.”
- Paulo Coelho
Richard Borge
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
- Oscar Wilde
Daren Lin
“Hell is empty. All the devils are here.”
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
Ricardo Martinez
“Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.”
- Heena Rathore P., Deceived
Bruce Hutchison
"A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information".
- Karyn Kusama
- Karyn Kusama
John Mattos
“Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.”
- Sara Shepard
Kent Barton
Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.
- Ashwin Sanghi
Hokyoung Kim
“Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.”
- Jennifer Perry
Christina Chung
“Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.”
- Mason Cooley
Wenjia Tang
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Oscar Ramos
“Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.”
- Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Circle of Trust
Avalon Nuovo
"I’m so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.”
- Hrithik Roshan
Zach Meyer
"We all go a little mad sometimes.”
-Norman Bates, Psycho
Thomas Ehretsmann
"Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies."
- Guy De Maupassant
Ryan Garcia
“A small ground, some burnt woods, a building – the last place for everyone.”
- Rabi Chatterjee, Finding the search continues…
Mark T Smith
“Welcome to my nightmare, I think you’re going to like it.”
- Alice Cooper
- Alice Cooper
Tran Nguyen
“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody.”
- Mark Twain
Vanessa Branchi
“The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
-David Wong, “John Dies at the End”
-David Wong, “John Dies at the End”
Bill Sanderson
“We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realized they were inside us.”
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin
Guy Stauber
"Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
- Marisha Pessl, "Night Film”
Stefania Infante
“I fear not the dark itself, but what may lurk within it.”
- Unknown
- Unknown
Eric Petersen
"If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work."
- James Wan
Charles Chaisson
"Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”
- Rémy de Gourmont
Lili des Bellons
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
- Joe Hill, "Horns"
- Joe Hill, "Horns"
Julia Yellow
"Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world."
- Ada Leverson
Mikyung Lee
“You can escape anything but not yourself.”
- Valda Taurus, Killing Your Best Friend
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