Good Story Quotes - Page 14

• I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Stories, Ends

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• Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

  John Pentland Mahaffy

  Inspiration, Stories

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• To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Independent, Mind, Stories

  "Viggo Mortensen Says He’ll Work With David Cronenberg Again, Possibly On ‘Eastern Promises 2’". Interview with Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I think I'm always drawn to a good story

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Thinking, Stories

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of 'The Mortal Instrument: City of Bones'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

  Ronny Cox

  Song, Funny Things, Long

  "Senator On the Rise". The GateWorld Interview, www.gateworld.net. September 15, 2003.

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• Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Summer, Talking

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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• A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

  Palmer Luckey

  Reality, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.

  Andrew Aydin

  Fall, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The best defense is a good story.

  Frederick Busch

  Defense, Stories

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• History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

  Sara Sheridan

  Space, Stories, Blank

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