Pacing Quotes

62 quotes by 56 authors

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. — Garth Ennis
Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She may start pacing… — Kevin Hart
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work… — Paul Engle
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue… — Garth Stein
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit… — Maggie Stiefvater
The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing,… — Craig McCracken
I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape… — Carlisle Floyd
You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death.… — Victoria Gotti
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our… — Jerry Garcia
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to… — Rita Dove
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. — Chuck Palahniuk
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights… — Charles Schumer
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or… — J. Michael Straczynski
The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the… — C.S. Lewis
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?" Your daughter," Dr.… — Jodi Picoult
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room,… — J D Salinger
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words… — Dr. Seuss
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet… — Ned Vizzini
But it isnâ€™t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical… — Patrick Rothfuss

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