Suzanne Collins Quotes

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

I think suspense is a big thing.

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

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

Who's next?

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

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

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

Fear is excitement without breath.