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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Stories, Moral

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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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• There's no good story without romance.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romance, Stories

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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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• 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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• I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Religious, Atheist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Good stories are constructed, not found.

  Warren Spector

  Stories, Found

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

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fighting, Bars, Stories

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

  Alma Alexander

  Stories, Entertaining, Know How

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• 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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• 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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• 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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