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• A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

  Michael Scott

  Hero, Journey, Interesting

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• You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Running

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• I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, Talking, Skills

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Fiction, Stories, Admire

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• A good story should change the way you see the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Way, Stories

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Appreciation, Joy, How You Feel

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

  Marques Houston

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I get up in front of a bunch of kids and say 'Hey, I'm gonna tell you a new story. Who wants to be in a new story?' Well some kid always sticks up their hand and that gives me a name, but it doesn't give me a story. I just say whatever comes to my mind and usually it's not that good. Every once in a while, however, I say something that turns into a really good story.

  Robert Munsch

  Kids, Hands, Names

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• What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Luck, Stories, Want

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

  Henry Rollins

  Stories, Tests, Environment

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• I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

  Jim Carrey

  Play, Acting, Stories

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're setting the scene and everything. It's like you're painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it's the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.

  Big Boi

  Important, Elements, Littles

  "Big Boi Welcomes Us to the World of Luscious Left Foot". Interview with Dave Maher, pitchfork.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Distance, Party

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• I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film."

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Games, Stories

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers on both, big-time. So hold on to your hats, folks. You’re in for quite a ride.

  Harry Turtledove

  Enemy, Stories, Development

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• A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Writing, Lenses, 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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• 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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• What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

  Paulo Coelho

  Simple, Stories, Persons

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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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• That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

  Carsten Jensen

  Stories, Strange, Pleasure

  Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Writing, Stories, Checks

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• I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Character, Loss, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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