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

- George R. R. Martin

If you don't do the suspense correctly, then your jump scares are not going to work.

- James Wan

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

- James Wan

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

- James Patterson

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

- James Patterson

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

- Iris Johansen

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

- Ira Sachs

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

- Hallie Ephron

I think suspense is a big thing.

- Gina Philips

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

- Gus Van Sant

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

- Berkeley Breathed

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

- Fawn M. Brodie

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

- Ernest Gaines

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

- David Giuntoli

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

- Dara Horn

There is no suspense in inevitability.

- Damon Lindelof

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

- Danny Boyle

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

- Dan Brown

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

- Damian Lewis

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.

- Cecile de France