Good Story Quotes - Page 9

• History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

  Sarah Vowell

  Interesting, Stories, Want

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• Good stories are constructed, not found.

  Warren Spector

  Stories, Found

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• Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticians… Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.

  Spencer Antle

  Strong, Dirty, Cities

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• If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

  Simon Sinek

  Stories, Good Experiences, Ifs

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• A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Doors, Stories, Boundaries

  "TOMS founder credits success to curiosity, powerful story". Interview with Steve Kuhlmann, www.mrt.com. March 23, 2015.

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• A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

  Nora Roberts

  Doors, Needs, Stories

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Captivated: The Donovan Legacy”, p.36, Penguin

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• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

  Ted Allen

  Eye, Successful, Thinking

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

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• Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

  Aaron Stanford

  Talking, Stories, Scripts

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• With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Finding The One, Creating

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• Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Running, Writing, Magic

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• Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.

  Arthur Christiansen

  Reading, Stories, Honey

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

  Ryan Kwanten

  People, Watches, Stories

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• I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Looks, Stories

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

  Roy H. Williams

  Stories, Increase, Items

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• The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

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• Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Giving Up, Book, Reading

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• Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

  Stephen King

  Book, Library, Stories

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, Stories

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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, What If, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.

  Mike Carey

  Lying, Heart, Fire

  "Lucifer Book Five".

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• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  Donald Miller

  Together, Stories, Taste

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• No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Buttons, Stories, Facts

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.376, Faber & Faber

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• The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

  Lev Grossman

  Doe, Stories

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.378, Penguin

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• I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

  Josh Hartnett

  Character, Interesting, Directors

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