Opening Scenes Quotes

#1. Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut
and your heart
in the opening scenes and never lets go.

Jeffery Deaver

#2. Surviving means being born over and over.

Erica Jong

#3. I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.

Maiwenn

#4. Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

Michael Fassbender

#5. I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

Violet Trefusis

#6. But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.

Anne Rice

#7. In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

Jack White

#8. If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

Nancy Kress

#9. What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

James Joyce

#10. It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Viggo Mortensen

#11. On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

Fran Wilde

#12. There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be
not just always do.

Elizabeth Lesser

#13. There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

Debbie Ford

#14. Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Richard Paul Evans