#compel

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be ↗

— Téa Obreht

#fiction #opening-lines #home

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#beyond #both #climb #compelled #enjoy

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#compel #domination #folly #free #i

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. ↗

— Criss Jami

#compelling #consideration #constructive-criticism #demean #demeaning

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. ↗

— William Banting

#appetite #compelled #consequently #exercise #forsake

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#believe #chain #compel #disbelieve #ever

To advise is not to compel. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#compel

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. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #compelling #dreams #find #going

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#admit #because #cease #compels #i

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#being #compelling #compounds #fact #know