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“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 resolution.”

Writing Opportunity Conflict Threat Complexes Dramatic Resolution Overwhelming Compelling Protagonists

Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.”

Heart Stories Theory Make Sense Compelling

Author: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 main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.”

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Author: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 cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.”

People Ifs Audience Perspective Discipline Crosses Make Sense Range Compelling Topics

Author: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 compelling way in a three-hour play.”

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Author: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 goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.”

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Author: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.”

Thinking Political Process Impossible Television Compelling

Author:Peter Jennings

“As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.”

Stories Responsibility Compelling

Author: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 nine episodes on The Practice. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.”

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Author:Kate Burton

“If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.”

Ifs Stories Interesting Scripts Compelling

Author:Andre Braugher

“I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.”

People World Humans Looks Reality Conditions News Draws Human Condition Compelling Dynamics World News

Author:Leslie Banks

“I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.”

Ifs Internet Compelling

Author:Pete Cashmore

“Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.”

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Author:Elizabeth Dole

“And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.”

Ifs Long Enough Stories Bigs Care Able Independent Studios Budgets Compelling Back And Forth

Author:Griffin Dunne

“You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.”

Ends Matter Hard Character Stories Hard Work Compelling Unforgettable

Author:James Dashner

“It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.”

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Author:John Doerr

“Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.”

Thinking Games Force Exercise Internals Compelling Superfluous

Author:Jacques Ellul

“My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.”

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Author:Joshua Ferris

“I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.”

Book Character Stories Age Young Coming Of Age Compelling Books And Movies

Author:Emily Giffin

“The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.”

Matter Behinds Style Poet Tradition Compelling Epic

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.”

Trying Book Reader Pages Compelling

Author:Chetan Bhagat

“There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.”

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Author:Michael Ealy

“Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.”

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Author:Leslie Jamison

“The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.”

Ifs Doe Christ Existence Fool Evidence Compelling

Author:Peter Kreeft