Good Story Quotes - Page 14

• 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 realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.

  Christopher Vogler

  Laughter, Philosophy, Writing

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• Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Summer, Talking

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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• A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

  Palmer Luckey

  Reality, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.

  Andrew Aydin

  Fall, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.

  Monica Wood

  Mistake, Reading, Character

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• The best defense is a good story.

  Frederick Busch

  Defense, Stories

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• It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Skills, People, Trying

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

  Roland Emmerich

  Stories

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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