Quotes About Climax

Behind every conversation, every shadowed glance, every stone on the road, every bud overhead, lurked a hidden threat: that the climax of Shem's task would be his own sacrifice.

There should always be some sort of conclusion or climax to your solos.

When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.

the unity of a story is always in its plot.

The soulless blood-rush of synthesized climax over a repetitive backbeat made disco the perfect music by which to score with a stranger.

Failure brings a climax in which one has the privilege of clearing his mind of fear and making a new start in another direction.

I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

If you agree to come with us…I'll end this show.

Happy ending roll credits pick our way out, over crushed pieces of popcorn to emerge into the glaring light of day

whenever the emotion had reached its climax, suddenly it swung around and there followed a cosmic stillness. At such times I was remote from everything, and what had only a moment before excited me seemed to belong to a distant past.

If New York was a piece of music, then this was the ominous pause leading up to an intense climax.

Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book

deus ex machina

There was a thin, reedy quaver in the air, that wavered raggedly up the scale. It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain.

I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock, and as he reached the climax of his exhortation, a man in the front row got up and said, 'O Lord, use me. Use me, O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.