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• A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

  O. Henry

  Sugar Coating, Pills, Stories

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.

  Etgar Keret

  Passion, Writing, America

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• There's nothing more important than a good story.

  Lauren Graham

  Important, Stories

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

  Marc Maron

  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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• I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

  Jorge Garcia

  Tv Shows, Three, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit and the richness of life in California, including its history, people, culture and natural wonders.

  Huell Howser

  Richness Of Life, California, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

  Mac Barnett

  Kids, Deserve More, Stories

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• To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Cost

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• Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

  William Bennett

  Years, Once Upon A Time, Stories

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.

  Thomas Berry

  Inspiring, Stories, Fit

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

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• There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

  Lawrence Watt-Evans

  Stupid, Writing, Ideas

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• Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

  Barry Hannah

  Character, Long, Joy

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• We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

  Kathy Bates

  Book, Secret, Library

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• An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

  Roberta Williams

  Beautiful, Travel, Adventure

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• In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Truth, People, Gossip

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.507, Tuttle Publishing

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• Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.

  Matt Walsh

  Believe, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Art, People, Pushing Boundaries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

  Sean Lennon

  Love, Betrayal, Stories

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• If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

  Hilary Mantel

  Play, Ideas, Stories

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Challenges, Stories

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• George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

  Ajay Naidu

  Responsibility, Epic, Important

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• Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

  Susan Orlean

  Mean, News Stories, Seductive

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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• I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

  Dennis Quaid

  Soul, Looks, Stories

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