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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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• I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

  Marguerite Moreau

  People, Different, Stories

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• I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

  Alia Shawkat

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• There's nothing more important than a good story.

  Lauren Graham

  Important, Stories

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• When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

  Marc Maron

  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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• Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

  Susan Orlean

  Mean, News Stories, Seductive

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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• I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

  Dennis Quaid

  Soul, Looks, Stories

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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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• 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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• A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

  Diane Setterfield

  Broken, Stories, Pieces

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Mean, Stories

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Play

  Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

  Libba Bray

  Magic, Stories, Seems

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Taken, Technology, Thinking

  "Read or Listen to the YES MAN Press Conference with Producers David Heyman, Richard Zanuck and director Peyton Reed". YES MAN Press Conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

  Jorge Garcia

  Tv Shows, Three, Stories

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

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