Top 100 Quotes About What Happens Next
#1. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.
Andrew Evans
#2. I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we're choosing in every moment what happens next.
Rainbow Rowell
#3. As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.
Peter Landesman
#4. I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Christopher Nolan
#5. As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are "Notice that" and "What happens next?" Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#6. Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
James Gleick
#7. The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.
Richard Petty
#8. How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.
Andy Stanley
#9. I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.
George Saunders
#10. I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.
Eli Roth
#11. We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
Laura Innes
#12. For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
Neal Asher
#13. So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?
Jerzy Kosinski
#14. For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
Matt Taibbi
#15. I think the most interesting thing is what happens next.
Marissa Mayer
#16. Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.
Frank Shorter
#17. This is the first time in I don't know how long that I've come even close to caring what happens next. I guess you could call that hope.
Amy Reed
#18. I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.
Bernard Hopkins
#19. 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.
Ruth Rendell
#20. I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
James Tate
#21. What happens next?" Gibson found he was curious too. They finished The Return of the King two years later, and in the process, Gibson became a reader. Something
Matthew FitzSimmons
#22. Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next.
- Samuel Reed
Rodman Philbrick
#23. All innovation begins with vision. It's what happens next that is critical.
Eric Ries
#24. This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
Philip Pullman
#25. I really don't know what happens next
one so seldom does.
E. M. Forster
#26. I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
Dakota Goyo
#27. Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#29. Levi kicked her chair. "Cath. Read me your fan fiction. I want to know what happens next."
She opened her computer slowly, as if she were still thinking about it. As if there were any way she was going to say no. Levi wanted to know what happened next. That question was Cath's Achilles' heel.
Rainbow Rowell
#30. You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
Richard Russo
#31. What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"
That's big.
"Yes. But there's something else."
What else?
He leaned forward.
"Being forgotten," he whispered.
Mitch Albom
#32. I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next
Kim Cormack
Kim Cormack
#33. One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.
Jackie French
#34. And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.
Shannon Hale
#35. You may admire, even love those photographs, but you don't look at them and think What happened next? They have an immutable quality - that's their strength and power. But there's no question embedded in them. There's a question embedded in all your work, that sense of 'what happens next.
Anna Quindlen
#36. As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.
Tracy Chevalier
#37. 'So what happens next?'
'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.'
'Like any other story, then.'
Sarah Monette
#38. In publishing, I may be unsure of what happens next, but I know that it's a sure road; God put me here.
Miranda A. Uyeh
#39. When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'
John Lasseter
#40. We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.
Lysa TerKeurst
#41. Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?"
"Those are brave words, Tiresias."
"New parents can't afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.
Joe McKinney
#42. But right now, you need to finish this story. Because if I don't find out what happens next, I'm going to poop myself a little.
Brad Vance
#43. I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.
Albert Borris
#44. But they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.
Abigail Thomas
#45. When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#46. There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.
Amy Engel
#47. I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.
Margaret Mahy
#48. I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn't know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.
Marsha Norman
#49. Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.
Neil Marshall
#50. There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.
Ronald D. Moore
#51. Twisted my lips at the thought. "This is a new beginning for us, isn't it?" He leaned forward to brush my nose with his. "No. This is better than a beginning. This is what happens next.
Laurelin Paige
#52. forget about it; if today never becomes a yesterday, at least you can make peace with today. What already happened we can't change, but we can change what happens next!
Aleta Williams
#53. All six telegrams arrive at the same place together. What happens next is that you make a choice. What will it be? Most adults know that the rational choice - in terms of health, weight, nutrition, and
Deepak Chopra
#54. All those things that werent supposed to happen? They happened. What happens next is up to you.
Hank Moody
#55. A bad thing about dying is that I've started to feel as though I'm being erased. Another bad thing is that I won't get to find out what happens next.
Audrey Niffenegger
#56. Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
Dan Stevens
#57. The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
Charles De Lint
#58. That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, "I have to find out what happens next," and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.
Clare B. Dunkle
#59. The swift greyhounds chased him for hours, wearing the wolf down, tiring him out so he would be too weak to give more than a token fight at the end.
He remembered this tactic well from when he had been the hunter on the horse....
At least I know what happens next.
E.D. Walker
#60. Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.
David Mamet
#61. I am not ready to see what happens next. Because it's possible that nothing will happen, and that might break me.
David Levithan
#62. 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.
Lynn Coady
#64. No matter what happens next, I'm not letting this turn into another two weeks of silence, the entire history of us summed up in a series of near misses and almosts just because neither of us had the snowballs to say anything.
Sarah Ockler
#66. As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Margaret Atwood
#68. Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height ... Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
Alan Judd
#69. Nothing is certain," he murmured. "The future is constantly changing, and no one can predict what happens next. We have the power to change our destiny, because fate is not set in stone, and we are always free to make a choice.
Julie Kagawa
#70. And I think of nothing.
I think of nothing but Rachel.
What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
Barry Lyga
#72. It means we can't change what's already happened, but we can have an impact on what happens next.
Hugh Howey
#73. Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don't stop reading the book! If you do ... then you never get to find out what happens next!
Brian Falkner
#74. Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?
Louisa Hall
#75. Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next.
-A Fool's Progress
Edward Abbey
#76. The wonder and awe of Christmas is just a beginning. Christmas reminds us that the babe born in Bethlehem has given us purpose for living, and what happens next to us largely depends on how we embrace our Savior, Jesus Christ, and follow Him.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#77. That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in film.
Richard Toscan
#79. When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.
Dominic Monaghan
#80. We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
E. M. Forster
#82. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?
Richard Siken
#83. If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
Tamora Pierce
#84. How can you be so nice to me and how can you forgive me when I've been such a jerk?"
Maddy appears to think for a moment. "When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don't keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.
Stephen Reid Andrews
#85. If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.
Brad Warner
#86. It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.
Elizabeth Warren
#87. What would happen if you allowed a bug to slip through a module, and it cost
your company $10,000? The nonprofessional would shrug his shoulders, say
"stuff happens," and start writing the next module. The professional would
write the company a check for $10,000!
Robert C. Martin
#88. cannot decide what I will next think or intend until a thought or intention arises. What will my next mental state be? I do not know - it just happens.
Sam Harris
#89. I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
John Isner
#90. I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#91. The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore
#92. I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
Frank McCourt
#93. Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Amy Hempel
#94. I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.
Billy Casper
#95. Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?
Taylor Hanson
#96. Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
Mitch Albom
#97. If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society ... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.
Lee Kuan Yew
#98. The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.
Milton Friedman
#99. It's not the amount of time that makes something real. It's what happens in that time," he said solemnly. "Each moment is weighted against the next, and the moments I've spent with you have been more meaningful than almost all the ones I've had before it.
Amanda Hocking
#100. If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.
Zig Ziglar
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