Curtains Quote by Daniel Handler

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody…

— Richard Condon

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

— Lionel Trilling

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

“Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has…

— John Truby

“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction to briefly…

— Tim Powers

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially…

— Paul Di Filippo

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films…

— Panos Cosmatos

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this…

— Michael Winterbottom

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale

“The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's…

— Ian McEwan

The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it…

— Steve Erickson

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley