Compelling Quote by Aaron Sorkin Download Open image “I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.” — Aaron Sorkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compelling Enough People Stuff Thinking Want Watches Writing
I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling. — Chris Hegedus Copy Share Image
If you look around at the news industry, there are more and more sites clamoring for that kind of writing, whether it's an Ideas… — Tim Carmody Copy Share Image
In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life… — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was… — Karen Hinton Copy Share Image
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image