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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I think suspense is a big thing.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

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