Quotes About Anticipation

You just never know how an audience is going to react.

My whole life, I've been preparing for moments and you can only know how you're going to react once you're in them.

I think I've gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I've just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.

I'm always excited to see the reaction of the crowd when I'm playing a new song.

I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

When I'm fighting, I'm trying to find a reaction. I try to make the guy move; I try to make him do things that I want him to do. If he likes moving a certain way, I try to set something up so I catch him if he moves that way.

If I think I will get the ball, I go out. I can't stop halfway because the goal is empty and the player would have the opportunity to shoot. You make the reaction, and then, of course, you have to be sure to get the ball. But it's years of practice. You can't say from one day to the other, 'Now I will do it,' you know? You have to feel it.

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

When I was told that we are doing another series of 'Kichidi' my reaction was indeed as if the wish, of not only me but the audiences who loved watching the show, was fulfilled again.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I'm fast. I feel like I can feel things before the play starts. I think my reactions are quick. I think I have great vision. So, I use those.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Will the reader turn the page?

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

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.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.