“Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.” IfsIdeasFictionPiecesSeaCompellingCavesSecluded Author:Ron Rash
“In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.” WritingStoriesFictionCrimeTvsEssenceExcitingTalesCompellingJewelsThrillersCrime Fiction Author:Hank Phillippi Ryan
“I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardHalfFictionImagineCompellingBizarrePrivate LifeJuicyHaggard Author:Jerry Stahl
“It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.” HardPlayStoriesFictionTruth IsOriginalsBlessedStrangerCompellingLife StoryTrue LifeStranger Than Fiction Author:Hilary Swank
“'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.” WorldWritingMeanCharacterStoriesFoundInterestingFictionPlansFinishedI RealizedCompellingDystopianUtopiaDivergentUtopianDystopian Fiction Author:Veronica Roth
“Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.” StoriesFictionDepthSurfaceMilesContemporaryOriginalityCompellingAbsorbingContemporary Fiction Author:Frederic Tuten
“Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo” IfsChildrenCharacterReadingFictionSorrowFavorsVampireCompellingGritHeartbreakingThrillersBravo Author:Christopher Golden
“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsHumansLooksStillsIdeasMomentsAblePastBornLossLevelsFictionTalkingHappenedDyingMinesYears AgoIntelligentScience FictionLaysShakesCompellingOrganismsNever QuitFiction WritersHyperFacetious Author:Robert Reed
“I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsHas BeensMadeI CanBookStoriesMovingFictionWonderWonderfulScience FictionBiologyCompellingFascinationIntriguingScience Books Author:Simon Jenkins
“By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.” IfsMomentsFictionSubjectsSurprisePhotographStrikesRevelationsCompellingRemembranceFidelity Author:Tod Papageorge
“Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.” BeautifulAbilityFictionQualityPhotographyConsequenceCompellingSevereAmbiguityBlurMisused Author:Taryn Simon
“In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.” RealizingFictionTechniqueDevicesNonfictionCompellingIdentical Author:Kathleen Rooney