An indispensable tool when amping up your plot, suspense can make your story memorable or prove it to be totally penny dreadful. It is unarguably a very important part of writing fiction. And it's no wonder, a lot of experienced insiders have spoken about the necessity of adding suspense to your scenes and allow it to carry the story to the heart of the reader. Read on, you might learn a thing or fifteen but it sure won't hurt.
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The courage to imagine the
otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Suspense is like a woman. The
more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. 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.
In suspense novels even
subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
― Jeffery Deaver
There is nothing like suspense
and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy.
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 Follet
We all live in suspense, from
day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own
story.
Show me a character whose life
arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Even cowards can endure
hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
― Mignon McLaughlin
Suspense is very important.
Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building
suspense is still there.
As for suspense, I like to
write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where
people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member,
the truth.
― Andrew Gross
The rules of suspense are that
you do know, and you just don't know when.
― Gus Van Sant
Tradition is the enemy of
suspense.
― Steven Moffat
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
Tension and suspense come from characters whose goals conflict with each other.
― William G. Tapply
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
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