Quotes About Cliffhanger

Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it's boring. There's nothing to talk about afterwards.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

I worked on 'Line of Duty' with Vicky McClure after she'd just finished the last series of 'This Is EnglandI think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show. and I kept nagging her to find out how it ended.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

people who read short stories love endings that make them want to gargle with Drano or nosedive off a skyscraper. But

Don't forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and cityscapes and exquisitely crafted metaphors works in service of story, contributing to the momentum that will propel your readers forward.

And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.

9mm was ready. But

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

again, so had the rest of the

Suspense builds when the reader wants something to happen and it isn't happening yet. Or something is happening and the reader wants it to stop, now. And it doesn't.

The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. "All right, asshole, I've got something for you. Call me.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

might cover two nights. You and your mistress will have to scale

I will say there is only one caveat as far as 'Logan' goes: I got to the end and went, 'OK, what happens next?' To me, as an audience member, damn. If you can get to the end of the third act of a trilogy and your reaction is 'what the hell happens next,' someone did their job incredibly.

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

How about 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7? Think about it for a minute. That approach has the advantage of giving you "I am your father," and of starting with the mysteries of the two best, while treating the prequels as kind of a flashback (as you're also focused on the cliffhanger ending of 5). Then you get to wrap everything up with the real finale, and the best, before the third trilogy starts. Not a bad idea at all. A

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.