Conflict Quote by William Landay Download Open image “Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.” — William Landay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conflict Driven Stakes Stories Tension War
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next. — Laura Innes Copy Share Image
I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but” — William Landay Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth. No lawyer does. We have all seen too many mistakes, too many bad results. A jury verdict is just a guess—a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote. And yet,… — William Landay Copy Share
An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“You can’t do it alone, that’s the thing. You have to remember there are other people out there who have gone through it, who… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That's all they got, my body, not me. I'm everywhere, see? Everywhere you… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent,… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“They were chosen for their perfect ignorance of these things. That is how the system works. In the end, the lawyers and judges happily… — William Landay Copy Share Image
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. — William Landay Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“You're staring.' 'You're my wife. I'm allowed to stare.' 'Is that the rule?' 'Yes. Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want. Trust me. I'm a… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“It is a common architectural strategy to build courtrooms without windows, to enhance the effect of a chamber isolated from the everyday world, a… — William Landay Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national media in New York; and you don't have a recognizable, long-simmering conflict like the one… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former… — Kofi Annan Copy Share
