I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
Stephen KingShall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
Stephen KingAbout halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.
Stephen King