Nelson DeMille Quotes

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

Will the reader turn the page?

What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

I believe thrillers work if the story is good. It is not easy to make a thriller because the audience is making their own story in their minds as they watch the film. You have to break that expectation and still make them like the film.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

I think suspense is a big thing.

I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.

Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.