Quotes About Hook

She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.

Do not struggle when the hook of a word pulls you into the air of truth and you cannot breathe.

The fishhook catches the fish

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

Why start your one-liner by stating a problem? (1) Because the problem is the hook, (2) because the problem adds value to your product or service, and (3) because stating the problem is a great way to be remembered in your customer's mind.

The problem is the "hook" of a story, and if we don't identify our customers' problems, the story we are telling will fall flat.

After that, I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moments in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Those half-seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

Darkness uses light as bait on its hook!

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

What is the heart of the story? What's the hook? What's the setting? What is the primary action that drives the story? What is the emotional core? What are the external conflicts (the world is coming to an end!) What are the internal conflicts (torn between two lovers) What is the driving emotional force? (revenge, love) Will they succeed? (introduce doubt)

Try not to mention more than three or four characters unless they're vital to the story. If you can't hook them with four characters you won't be able to do it with five or six.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Thou shalt make sure thy first sentence is a grabbah!

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.

You give a poet a bucket of worms, he'll probably put the whole bucket on the end of the hook.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Snagging her sou'wester off the hook by the

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.