Read the excerpt from Lee Child’s "A Simple Way to Create Suspense". Like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously. Which statement by Karin Slaughter shows a similar central idea?

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There has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.

The Art of Creating Suspense: Central Ideas of Two Authors - Quiz Quiz

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