Veronica Roth Quotes

What's wrong?" I didn't say a word." Something's up. What is it?" Nothing." His head turned, gaze going to mine. "Yeah?" Yes." A snort and he returned to his bowl.

Sean looks at me then, his eyes bright, in a way that makes me feel out of sorts. I glare back.

Don't look at me like that, Michael Cole.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

Before I could stop myself, I punched his arm. “Careful,” he said in a low voice. “They might think we’re flirting.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

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.

Tension is all about, 'Why is this taking so long?' The interesting thing about that is that it's also the tension of comedy. The tension of drama and comedy is similar, and that's why usually you can get a big laugh in a really tense moment because people need that release.

Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.

What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.

Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that.

The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

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

When you are on the street, if someone walks towards you it's better to look down. But we were always looking at people in the eye to try to provoke something.

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.

I watched her, waiting. She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes warmed. I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.