Quotes About Tension

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.

They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it.

They had ganged up on her, in the claustrophobic, loving way of families, and she wanted no more of it. 7

For who was in thrall to whom, really? And could it ever be known? Each agent working in collusion and antagonism - like the cold and the sun alike creating a deadly spear of ice... Who is in thrall to whom? And while you wait to learn, the deadly icicle, formed by all opposing forces, falls and drives its cold nail into penetrable flesh.

The madder the battle, the saner the peace.

She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.

The louder the cannon, the deafer the peacemakers.

In The Levity Effect, Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher argue that "levity" is a highly effective tool for helping people to work better; humor helps people pay attention, eases tensions, and enhances a feeling of connection.

A blow lasts a minute but is anticipated for months—our passions are like volcanoes: always rumbling but only intermittently erupting.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

L'angoisse de l'attente faisait désirer la venue de l'ennemi.

Now she was frightened, terribly frightened, and had a wild desire to run away, to ring, to call, but she dared not move, lest she might disturb his repose.

L'angoisse de l'attente fait désirer la venue de l'ennemi.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.