Quotes About Compelling

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

But, the Rule of One does not mean you can't have a story and a secret and an emotionally-compelling fact in the same lead. It means that the lead is strongest that promotes one compelling idea by supporting that idea with all the appropriate techniques … stories

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

Love can only be found in freedom of choice. And for choice to exist, there must be an alternative to choose. Something as compelling as love.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.

Bad people are intriguing!

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able to say in one compelling sentence - that you should practice like crazy - what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.

Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?

I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

I get my share of 'cold' requests via LinkedIn from people who are launching non-profit or for-profit ventures and who request a meeting to get my input or help. I wish I could say yes to all of them, but given limited bandwidth, I say yes to the subset who've written a compelling description of their work and who are underrepresented.

I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.