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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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• 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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• 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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• This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

  Michael Arndt

  Stories, Mediums

  "Toy Story 3′ screenwriter talks toys with the Daily". Interview with Lorrayne Shen, tuftsdaily.com. November 4, 2010.

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• If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Stories

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• I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

  David Eddings

  Stories, Prophet, Storyteller

  "Fantasy master David Eddings dies aged 77" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2009.

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• The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stories, Highest

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• From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

  Adam Savage

  Forever, Stories, Done

  "The Truth About MythBusters". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.

  Channing Tatum

  Memories, Believe, Weekend

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• What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

  Jim Bishop

  Real, Writing, Men

  "Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.

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• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  Kate Morton

  Passion, Writing, Stories

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• Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

  John Sayles

  Editors, Stories, Stuff

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• I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

  John Grisham

  Pages Turning, Issues, Goal

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• I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.

  Mark Canton

  Simple, Stories, Matter

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