Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.
– Sandy Vaile
Related Quotes:
- Fear was like heat applied to steal: Applied correctly it might forge a blade; overused, it turned metal to slag. – Alexander Freed
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. – JSB Morse
- Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it. – James C Dobson
- Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- When I don’t have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry. – Brian Richardson
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness. – Toba Beta
- I didn’t mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway. – Gwenda Bond
- Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward. – Orlando Figes
- Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take care of itself. – Moira Katson
- There’s always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start. – Frank Portman
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal. – Debasish Mridha
- Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness. – Debasish Mridha
- Boys are universal giver, women remains universal receiver. – Santosh Kalwar
- Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles – Seth Czerepak
- From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. – John N Gray
- the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. – Emil M Cioran
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. – Erich Fromm
- There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. – Robin Hobb
- Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. – Earl Nightingale
- All it takes is rumor…The danger itself is irrelevant. It’s the perception of danger we’re selling. – Sharon Weil
- If a danger threatens you, you threaten that danger too – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger. – Thomm Quackenbush
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right. – JR Rim
- We all are manufacturers in a way – making good, making trouble or making excuses. – H V Adolt
- Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. – William Kittredge
- When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process. – Robert M Pirsig
- I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers’ imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes. – PS Bartlett
- Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve. – AM Homes
- Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world. – Russell Eric Dobda
- It’s no longer history in the making. It’s our story we are making. – Natasha Tsakos
- Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. – Ben Marcus
- Suspense, murder, revenge, scandal; a delicious ????tail party. – Kat Kaelin
- Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure. – Jocelyn Murray
- Her suspense was terrible. – Thomas Hardy