Top 33 Literary Suspense Quotes
#1. I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.
Justin Bog
#2. There are always two sides to everything. Where there is bad, there is also good.
Jessica Brody
#3. It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.
-MUKTA
Amita Trasi
#4. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#5. The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
Martin Hopkins
#6. I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
Alain Prost
#7. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.
Cole Alpaugh
#8. I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.
Jess Walter
#9. Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence.
Nick Dunn
#10. The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
A.P. Herbert
#11. Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?
Cole Alpaugh
#12. The others forgot the work and the weather watching them throw. It was art. A thousand dollars a throw in Madison Square Garden wouldn't have gotten any more breathless suspense. It would have just been more people holding in.
Zora Neale Hurston
#13. Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.
It's that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.
Sandy Vaile
#14. Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#15. I have a plan, one I've been plotting for years now. It is my only way out.
John Grisham
#16. There's more truth in a grain of sand than you'll ever hear from man, woman, saint or sage. We classicists would sooner trust a potsherd.
Casper Silk
#17. Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
E. M. Forster
#18. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin Hopkins
#20. twenty years after McCauley's effort, I concluded that it was time to prove, once and for all, that the horror and suspense genre is a serious literary one. I had other reasons
Al Sarrantonio
#21. I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
K.d. Lang
#22. I wonder if every girl yearns for her father's love,
almost like waiting to catch the moon hiding in the trees - beautiful, yet so eternally elusive.
-MUKTA
Amita Trasi
#23. It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#24. I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.
Philippe Halsman
#25. It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
Maria Montessori
#26. Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
Barry Eisler
#27. Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it ... It's none of it simple.
Harold Prince
#28. He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
Oscar Wilde
#29. You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services
Raphael
#30. Can I help it if the world cannot worship what it has not first martyred?
Casper Silk
#31. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.
Sandy Vaile
#32. Leslie Titmuss bothered me. His name, it made me want to sneeze. I also thought I recognized it. I typed it into my laptop, a procedure that had lately held far too much suspense for me. Among the top results the search returned was a page from GoodReads, a literary website.
Walter Kirn
#33. There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!
Jim Rohn
