Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
William Landay
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CAROL BERG Big stories need human stakes.
AARON SWARTZ What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that ar...
ALEX KARPOVSKY Tension and mistrust among the parties to the conflict continue, ... In addition, unruly members of ...
KOFI ANNAN There's got to be some compromise. The stakes are just too high.
BRUCE FLAMM The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.
WILLIAM WEBSTER Creating authentic emotional experiences, whether it's 'Star Wars' or 'Spotlight,...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY It's a very high-stakes tactic.
DANIEL MCCONCHIE The stakes are incredibly high, ... Every congressman is keenly aware that redistricting looms.
TIM STOREY The stakes are incredibly high. Every congressman is keenly aware that redistricting looms.
TIM STOREY The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.
WILLIAM HEDGCOCK WEBSTER It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the...
CLAIRE DANES The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalen...
FRANK HERBERT It's all about social acceptance and being in the in-crowd, the good-old-boys' club. It's no differe...
JODI DELUCA Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be b...
ERICH FROMM WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful an...
JAN KOUM It's a high-stakes game, and you can lose those bets.
CARL HOWE [Immediately a choir began to sing:] Food, glorious food. ... The tension ? the conflict ? reputatio...
KIM BEAZLEY My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories t...
LASSE HALLSTROM Apparently the Time Lords have a long and honourable tradition of genocide when they think the stake...
JONATHAN BLUM The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-cons...
JACK DANGERMOND These kids have high grades, good technical and interpersonal skills. They are reliable. They follow...
KATY TOBLER This is going to be a for-real campaign for the first time in anyone's memory and the stakes are hig...
LAUREN CERCONE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS The fundamentals are improving, and it's being driven by things like high-definition televisions. Th...
TODD MITCHELL The stakes for all Americans are high, especially for women if their core legal rights are limited, ...
MARCIA GREENBERGER Life can be driven by two things - fear or passion. When we are driven by passion, our fear takes th...
TALIA Be driven but not crazy
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We are pleased to work with F+W to expand on this high-stakes concept, offering fantasy players addi...
GREGG KLAYMAN Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
HYMAN RICKOVER It's a big high-stakes craps game we're in and the outcome is very much unknown.
DAVID COLE You can't ignore that the stakes are high for NBC for this show. They're excited because they need s...
GREG GARCIA These are unlikely subjects for a one-day miracle, ... but the stakes are high and we are determined...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. ...
AMY CHUA Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine sp...
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WILLIAM LANDAY The human element in any system is always prone to error. Why should the courts be any different? Th...
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WILLIAM LANDAY I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the b...
WILLIAM LANDAY My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
CARL HIAASEN Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and b...
JONI EARECKSON TADA The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, whe...
SUFJAN STEVENS A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to...
JAMES FREY The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures d...
SIRI HUSTVEDT If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which ...
VERONICA ROTH The stakes are high on both sides: for Russia this is a matter of principle and for the Americans th...
YEVGENY VOLK I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live t...
AARON LAZAR The last time I checked, Utah was not a state that endorses high-stakes gambling.
KRIS KOBACH There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE DENNIS There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE E. DENNIS Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are ...
KEVIN SPACEY In contrast to the year-end rally here driven by real estate and other domestic plays, taking a lead...
NORIHIRO FUJITO Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as h...
ADRIAN MCKINTY The laughs are as big as any film he's ever made. And yet, it kind of creeps you out -- the tension ...
JOHN CUSACK Either we'll succeed and have a well-financed development and operations company, or we'll put Front...
DAVE WINER Liberalism has produced women that are driven like men to succeed and men that succeed in being driv...
DANIEL BRYANT GATES Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. St...
ANDREW GREELEY I said... how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to atta...
ROGER ASCHAM It's got high stakes and a great urgency. It's sort of like a regular Grey's Anatomy on testosterone...
PETER HORTON It's got high stakes and a great urgency. It's sort of like a regular 'Grey's Anatomy' on testostero...
PETER HORTON The stakes are too high for us to ignore this. We owe it to our kids so they can compete in their fu...
GREGORY THORNTON Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's b...
CARLA GUGINO Would you convict him on the basis of these lies? ... The stakes are very high: a man's life hangs i...
CHARLES GITTINS College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and...
JUDD APATOW In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When t...
CHUANG-TZU We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion
ERICA JONG The stakes are high. If Kansas gets away with it ... I anticipate that in every state where science ...
EUGENIE SCOTT With the market for Portable Media Player (PMP) semiconductors essentially doubling to $6.4 billion ...
CHRIS CROTTY We are ready to cooperate with any effort or good offices by the United Nations or the international...
ABDUL SATTAR Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
AZIM PREMJI A lot of enterprise behaviors are driven by consumers.
DENNIS TSU My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
TED DEKKER Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Divorce is really just about money. People are driven by fear and control.
CICILY MATON The significant question is whether the activity pursued permits the release of tension without ...
ROLLO MAY Go to an urban street corner or an unemployment line and it's been clear that the stakes (have alway...
RUSSLYNN ALI Brazil doesn't cheat on the Nonproliferation Treaty and it does not exist in an area of high tension...
DAVID ALBRIGHT One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candida...
CASS SUNSTEIN Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
RATAN TATA I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are...
BRIAN J. SMITH Dictators like violence, ... If you use violence against dictators they are happy. You must undermin...
ZORAN DJINDJIC We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
WILLIAM GLASSER Again it's all driven by mergers and acquisitions activity, and telecoms are in the limelight.
SIMON JEFFRIES Appears to be a good quarter overall, driven by strong top-line growth and continued improvement in ...
TIMOTHY ANDERSON Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It...
SHAWN MICHAELS Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
GREG KINNEAR This is a particularly competitive race combined with the perception that the stakes are enormously ...
MARK ROZELL This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Lever...
MICHAEL SWANWICK Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I ...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE There's a resounding feeling that these actions are driven by racism.
LOUI OLIVAS The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
TODD GITLIN Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.
ERIC NYLUND Geopolitical tension, with Iran restarting uranium enrichment ... coupled with high oil prices stock...
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WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY