Quotes About Compelling

I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.