Stacey Abrams

Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come.

American Politician

Alfred Hitchcock

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

English Director

Jeffery Deaver

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

American Writer

Jesse Kellerman

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

American Novelist

Nelson DeMille

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.

American Author

George R. R. Martin

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

Ernest Gaines

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Jeanne Moreau

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

French Actress

Fawn M. Brodie

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Julie Kenner

If the characters are acting true to themselves, then that chemistry and suspense will flow.

Suspense can evoke strong emotional reactions such as excitement or nervousness.

Emotional Effect

Although often associated with anxiety, suspense can also be pleasurable, like in waiting for a surprise.

Not Always Negative

Writers use suspense to hook readers, making them eager to know what happens next.

Narrative Tool

In literature, suspense is vital in genres like mystery, thriller, and horror.

Genre Specific

Authors create suspense by withholding information, leading readers to anticipate events.

Anticipation Building

Suspense drives emotional investment in characters and storyline.

Emotional Investment

In legal terms, suspense involves pausing court actions or decisions.

Legal Context

The legal term 'suspense' implies a temporary halt, not a complete stop.

Temporary Nature

The reason for the suspense in legal or work situations should be clear.

Cause of Delay

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 you should be wondering what happened to the men of the whaleship Essex. Our fears provoke in us a very similar form of suspense. Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in What will happen next?

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 What's inside the haunted mansion? Which of the dinner guests is the murderer? But suspense exists beyond these genres. Will the hero save the day? Will the couple get together in the end? And what is the dark secret that causes the main character so much pain?

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 You feel tremendous tension and the suspense of knowing that someone will jump out and be scary, but you just don't know when. That tension is dramatic you know something more than the characters in the film. Now, take the typical comedy.

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 Placing the reader in a character’s perspective can build urgency and suspense. Sometimes, though, second person is intended to distance the narrator from their own story, rather than bring the reader closer to the story. In these cases,

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 A room like this, nonetheless. With the same great feelings of suspense, the same deep hopes for salvation, the same sweat in the palms and the same people in the back not paying attention.

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 and he could go deep on topics, and we were about to be fired. So we sent him in. After a couple days of suspense, Jeff was still there. They hadn't sent him home.

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 Albatross parents do not recognize their chick by sight, sound or smell. What turned into a moment of relief quickly turned into a moment of suspense.

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 there's that drama that sense of suspense as to whether or not they can survive on a world that they were not made for

Suspense

Emotional Effect

Not Always Negative

Narrative Tool

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