Quotes with suspense

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

  Berkeley Breathed
  American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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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.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• 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.

  Alfred Hitchcock
  English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

  Fawn M. Brodie
  American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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• Suspense is worst than disappointment.

  Robert Burns
  Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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• The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

  Mary McCarthy
  American author (1912 - 1989)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointment
• experience
• hypothesis
• everything
• frightened
• fortunate

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