Quotes About Pacing

If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

I don't like fast cuts. I'd rather shoot something that dances to the music.

If I play one day, one day not play, I'm good.

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.

The period after the inauguration became known as the "Hundred Days," and its success in altering the country's mood partly stemmed from Roosevelt's clever pacing and use of dramatic contrast.

To think that by doing more you are doing better is a common blunder. It is never good to seem to be trying too hard—it is as if you were covering up some deficiency.

John Meredith paced up and down the parlour for a few minutes; then he went back to his study and sat down. But he did not return to his German theology.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain

We had this angry phone conversation where he said something like, "We've been working on this thing for a whole month, and it's still not finished." It's funny in retrospect, because we were still working on it 3 years later.

One of the keys to good pacing is to alternate your plot complications with rewards. Like a pendulum that swings on an arc, let your character relax, if only briefly, between disasters.

From that night on, wherever Barney and I went UFOs paced us.

Once in a while you can run very fast, but you cannot always go to the maximum.

The pacing in Tamil and Telugu is very different from Malayalam cinema.

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You know a movie is slow when you start looking to see what time it is. You know it's awful when you start shaking your watch to see if it has stopped. One

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

Hamilton's lifelong habit of talking sotto voce while pacing lent him an air of either inspiration or madness.)

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~