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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.

We are the hero of our own story.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.