Good Story Quotes - Page 8

• An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Stories, May, Individual

  "Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence". www.nytimes.com. October 19, 2011.

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• ...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

  Stephen King

  Book, Literary Merit, Stories

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• The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

  Evan Esar

  Stories, Way, Facts

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• A good story needs only a good storyteller.

  Richard Bausch

  Needs, Stories, Storyteller

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• My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

  Uzo Aduba

  Character, Voice, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Games

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

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• Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

  Henry James

  Ideas, Stories, Very Good

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

  Patrick Wilson

  Reality, Long, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.

  Drew Waters

  Sex, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Alan Lightman Interview". Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged.

  Deva Premal

  Silence, Needs, Stories

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• Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope.

  Michael Spencer

  Nice, Mean, Dark

  "Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality". Book by Michael Spencer, June 1, 2010.

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• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Interesting, Stories

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• A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fighting, Bars, Stories

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• As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

  Stephen King

  Character, Worry, Stories

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• Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is. Above all, a good book tells a good story. Focus on the story first. Ask yourself, 'Will other people find this story so interesting that they will tell others about it?' Remember: A bestselling book usually follows a simple rule, 'It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told'; not, 'It's a wonderfully told story.'

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

  Joy Williams

  Dark, People, Ordinary

  "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.

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• It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

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• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Calling

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• There's no good story without romance.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romance, Stories

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• I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

  Mark Twain

  Theatre, Stories, Sometimes

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.601, University of Alabama Press

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• What I like best is a good story with a moral.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Stories, Moral

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• When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media.

  Henry Jenkins

  Character, Media, Support

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.114, NYU Press

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• That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  Gene Siskel

  Movie, Giving, Trying

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• Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

  Alma Alexander

  Stories, Entertaining, Know How

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