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• Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Stories, Littles

  "Salman Rushdie: Beyond the tabloids". Interview with Hector Tobar, articles.latimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

  Ashton Kutcher

  Believe, Character, Ideas

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• No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Listening To Others, Should Have

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stories, Terrible, Turns

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

  Donald Trump

  Media, People, Fake

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

  Winona Ryder

  Roles, Stories, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

  Bill Capodagli

  Heart, People, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"

  George Saunders

  Writing, School, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

  Anne Hathaway

  Good Life, Stories, Mellow

  "Anne Hathaway Engaged to Adam Shulman!" by Justin Ravitz, www.usmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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• For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

  John Hawkes

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Knowing, Consistency, Stories

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

  Steven Spielberg

  Looks, Stories, Becoming

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• [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

  Anton Chekhov

  Compassion, Objectivity, Political

  "Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2017.

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• An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

  Brandon Mull

  Book, Mind, Stories

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• A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Struggle, Views

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• I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

  Stephen King

  Real, Magic, Mind

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• I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

  John Lithgow

  Betrayal, Book, Writing

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• A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Heart, Laughing, Stories

  "Stranger than Fiction: True Stories". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, June 15, 2004.

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• Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

  Adam Johnson

  Hard Work, Writing, Character

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• How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?" If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?" Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story.

  Stephen King

  Book, Destiny, Giving

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

  Josh Radnor

  Real, Should Have, Heartache

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

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• Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Writing, Islands

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

  John Updike

  Space, Religion, Stories

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.185, Random House

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• Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

  Tiger Woods

  Stories, Way, Facts

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