Barbara Tuchman Quotes

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

I never want to bore the public.

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

Make the paper interesting.

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

I am interested in doing anything that makes for a good watch.

For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.

Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

If you are true at telling the story, it will get a good audience, and the required numbers.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

It has all been most interesting.

It's all been very interesting.

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.