Compelling Quotes

434 quotes by 400 authors

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great… — Oren Peli
For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera. — David Rubenstein
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,'… — Ron Rash
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over… — Andrei Sakharov
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges. — Brittany Snow
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very… — Howard Stringer
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less… — Sarah Waters
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. — Criss Jami
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and… — Donald Miller
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at… — Randall Munroe
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic… — Terry Brooks
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense. — Richard Ford
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the… — Edmund White
It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a… — Sam Shepard
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary… — John Grisham
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. — Peter Jennings
As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story. — Jay Asher
I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for… — Kate Burton
If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it. — Andre Braugher

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