I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling…

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

— Peter Paige

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure.…

— J. Michael Straczynski

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a…

— Dick Wolf

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish…

— Jeffery Deaver

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

— John Hodgman

“True love can't be planned or expected because it happens most unexpectedly, and its story is always a compelling one to tell.”

— John Taskinsoy

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

— Chris Hegedus

“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.”

— Seeley James

You can't plan for people to like your movies. I knew that people were not going to run in droves to the theater for…

— Paul Haggis

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character…

— Kirsten Vangsness

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

— Zayn Malik

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened,…

— Alice Hoffman

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

— Lindsey Shaw

Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is…

— Sara Gran

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

— Hank Phillippi Ryan