I think suspense is a big thing.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

I'm a horror movie fanatic.

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.

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.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

I think suspense is a big thing.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

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.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

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

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

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

There is no suspense in inevitability.

In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

I try to go with the flow and have faith that everything is going to work out.

Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

Snowboarding is like driving a car. When things are all right, you're on it. But when things go wrong, it goes really, really bad really fast.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.