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Quotes About Climax

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.
~ Russell Edward Brand
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
~ Bill Belichick
The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.
~ Anne Lamott
For the climax, there must be a killing or a healing or a domination.
~ Anne Lamott
The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.
~ Anne Rice
He touched her, and she came again at his touch, her mouth pulling at him. He was beyond gentleness. He shoved her back against the blanket of clothes and moved between her legs. He went in hard, fast, deep, only barely able to control himself. She wrapped her legs around his, and he reached down and pulled them higher, up around his hips, so that he was deeper still, and she was tight, clasping, milking him with the power of her climax, which was almost sweetly painful.
~ Anne Stuart
Conflict is the essence of drama.
~ Elizabeth Bear
the final corner, when all three
~ Elizabeth Darrell
I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.
~ Eric Cantona
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
~ F. L. Lucas
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
~ Lee Child
Sometimes you gotta leave when you're on top.
~ Tyra Banks
It's always a great thing getting to play in the last game of the year.
~ Julian Edelman
I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
~ Dakota Goyo
It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down on you.
~ Fiona Barton
Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.
~ Jordan Peele
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
~ Jeffery Deaver
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
~ Ken Follett
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
~ Lee Child
I'd love to make a thriller.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
I like a good old thriller.
~ Dean-Charles Chapman
People love a good thriller that makes them sit on their edge of their seats.
~ Amala Akkineni
Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.
~ Corey Feldman