Cliffhanger Quotes

• Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Book, Literature

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• I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

  Mireille Enos

  Thinking, Pleasure

  "'The Killing' Mireille Enos interview: 'I thought controversy was great'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

  Chris Wooding

  Real, Book, Journey

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• The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.

  Jerry West

  Children, Book, Writing

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• 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."~

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Mean, Simple

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• One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.

  Mark Waid

  Book, Fall, Men

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• I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.

  Mike Judge

  Ends, Shows, Feels

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• 'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

  Michael Rooker

  Vacation, Seven Months, Feet

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• 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.

  Candice Accola

  Risk, Events, Stories

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• The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Book, Balance

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• Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

  Patrick J. Adams

  Mike, Harvey

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• Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

  Jean Rostand

  Inspirational, Men, Killing A Man

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• JJ Abrams is definitely a guy that when he calls, you want to answer. He's incredibly focused. When he was shooting the pilot on 'Lost,' we'd do a take and he'd go back to his tent and be working on the first episodes of 'Lost' as well as the cliffhanger for the eighth season of 'Alias.' He's an incredible multitasker.

  Jorge Garcia

  Guy, Answers, Shooting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.

  James Wolk

  Zoos, Wall, Thinking

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• It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Angel, Tv Shows, Tvs

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Interview with Cormorant, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Cities, Fallen

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