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Tension Quotes (page 6)

Ian Mcewan quote: "Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information."
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information. Ian Mcewan
On the thought a blessed silence came, an empty clarity. He took it a first for utter desolation, but desolation was a type of free fall, perpetual and without ground below. This was stillness: balanced, solid, weirdly serene. No momentum to it at all, forward or backwards or sideways. He lay drained of tension, not moving, and content to be so. The oddly stretched moment was like a bite of eternity, eaten on the run. Was this quiet place inside something new-grown, or had he just never... Lois McMaster Bujold
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself. Hans-Georg Gadamer
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Benito Mussolini
Robert Morgan quote: "With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes,..."
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. Robert Morgan
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Henry Moore
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. Andrea Mitchell
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to. Natalie Merchant
H. L. Mencken quote: "I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved..."
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. H. L. Mencken
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. Sarah McLachlan
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Ada Louise Huxtable
David Guterson quote: "Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. David Guterson
Ellen Goodman quote: "In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting..."
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Ellen Goodman
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry Louis Gates
John W. Gardner quote: "The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and..."
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. John W. Gardner

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