Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last."
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Suspense
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"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."
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process."
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement."
Ada Leverson
Author
"Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world."
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"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."
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"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider."
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"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."
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"For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor."
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"I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You are the Hero of your own Story."
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"Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself."
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"Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-."
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"I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed."
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"Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story."
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"Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott."
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"I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls."
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"...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time."
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"You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy."
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"Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it."
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"Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it."
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"I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense."
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"Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch."
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