I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“This is an example of pacing when shopping. Break shopping into multiple steps: 1) rest at home before driving the car to… — Alison C. Bested Copy Share Image
In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again. Madelyne dared a quick… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
“These days, many well-meaning school districts bring together teachers, coaches, curriculum supervisors, and a cast of thousands to determine what skills your… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
“As a general principle, the pacing of a level in any game, especially a game with physical challenges, should alternate between fast… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. Its output is a continuously refreshed, intuition-like feeling for how to adjust… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?"… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects - like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
It's my passion, that's what I wanna do, it's the end goal, that's what I crave every second of the day is… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through… — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
![“There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd…” quote by Melanie Lynskey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/906/melanie-lynskey-11682_battering_there-s-a-rhythm-to-script-in-i-don-t-fe_120254.jpg)
