Good Story Quotes - Page 8

• A good story never dies.

  Roberta Williams

  Stories, Dies

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• I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.

  Joss Whedon

  Regret, Firefly, Animal

  "Can a failed TV show spawn a successful film?". www.today.com. September 27, 2005.

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• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Jobs, Doe, Stories

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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story.

  H. L. Mencken

  Clever, Eye, Psych

  The American Mercury Magazine, p. 136, May 1933.

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• I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

  Blackie

  Ideas, People, Stories

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• In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Dirt, Stories

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Stories, Died

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

  Keri Russell

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

  Lana Del Rey

  Reading, Stories, Tabloids

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, Real, Views

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• I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

  John Grisham

  Writing, People, Stories

  1994 In the Independent on Sunday, 5 Jun.

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• Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

  Carl Reiner

  Giving, Tasks, Stories

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.

  Kelly Link

  Stars, War, Educational

  Interview with Lynne Jamneck, strangehorizons.com. February 28, 2005.

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• All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

  Suzanne Collins

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• If I didn't get joy from acting, I wouldn't do it. My passion for acting is growing and I love telling good stories and inspiring stories and helping to give a little happiness to the world and perhaps get the audience to think about different issues.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Passion, Thinking, Issues

  "Annasophia Robb And Bethany Hamilton Talk Soul Surfer: Interview With Shark Victim Surfer And The Actress Who Played Her". Santa Monica Mirror Interview, smmirror.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

  Donald Miller

  Epic, Stories, Unbearable

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• Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

  John Boyega

  Character, Interesting, Stories

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• A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Mean, Unique

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• the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

  Margot Asquith

  Stories, Storytelling, Announcements

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

  Robert Southey

  Philosophy, Drawing, Fire

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• who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Success, Struggle, Stories

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.685, Library of America

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• What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Strong, People, Victory

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