Before I became a suspense novelist I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

No 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

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

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward to have a low threshold of fear because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource adding color and suspense to all our life.

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

As an editor I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel 'The Lifeboat ' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night and I really wanted my company to publish it but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.