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When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Every story has its demands.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.