Suspense Quotes

“I am getting so tired of this suspense, that I am heartily willing to see an end of it, whatever that may be.”

“We've got one answer left. Can they steal?”

“Is it safe?”

“Hold on to your butts.”

“I'll go tally the votes.”

“The key to a good thriller is to have the audience on the edge of their seat, not hiding behind it.”

“There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man.”

“Horror is the depiction of the unimaginable. Suspense is the suggestion of the unimaginable.”

“Three and two. What'll he do?”

“I don't believe in shocks, I believe in suspense.”

“A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.”

“You don't tell a woman you're going to kill her. You just do it.”

“Hello? Is somebody there?”

“I write suspense. If it's bloody, it's bloody. I don't write 'horror'. Horror is a fly-blown piece of entrails hanging on a meat hook. Suspense is a waiting game.”

“My goal is always to surprise the reader.”

“The best surprises are the ones you don't see coming.”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

“I'm a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.”

“Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.”