Joanne Harris Quotes

I think suspense is a big thing.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

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.

With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

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

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

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.

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.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.

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

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.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have never failed to keep, and one that I'd say has served my books well.

I'd love to make a thriller.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

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

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right.