Fawn M. Brodie Quotes

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 think suspense is a big thing.

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.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

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.

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

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

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

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

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

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

I've always had a fascination for everything surrounding things that are unexplainable. Not surprising that my first movie was a horror film, even though, of course, at the time I had no experience writing horror music.

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 love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

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.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.