Challenges Quote by Edward Zwick

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As…

— Edward Zwick

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

— Donald Miller

A story isn't interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.

— Alexis Bledel

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

— Stephen Sondheim

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's…

— Donald Miller

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

— D. J. MacHale

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how…

— Nahnatchka Khan

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

— Lisa Lutz

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict. I don't really enjoy acting enough to not want to experience something…

— Joaquin Phoenix

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

— Donald Miller