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“I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.”

Ifs Knows Way Stories Three Dumb Evident Good Story Thrift Three Ways Earmarks

Author:Joyce Thompson

“A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.”

Stories Wisdom Good Day Bad Day Good Story

Author:Glennon Melton

“I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.”

Thinking Stories Dies Filled Ghost Good Story

Book:Somehow Form a Family: Stories that are Mostly True

Source: Somehow Form a Family: Stories that are Mostly True

“Never underestimate the power of a good story.”

Stories Liars Underestimate Good Story Never Underestimate

Book:The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

Source: The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

“I have some good stories yet to tell.”

Stories Good Story

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.”

World Want Wells Mean Stills Enough Character Stories Passion Goal Creative Findings Tasks Lonely Driven Terrific Good Story

Author:Robert McKee

“I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story.”

Ifs Knows Stories Answers Laughing Boxes Good Story Towels

Author:Lindsey Stirling

“As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.”

Men Needs Writing Wells Stories Hands Mistake Careful Be Careful Catastrophe Good Story Qualifications

Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

“Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective on me as a viewer I think of the original Haunting and the Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, the Sixth Sense, the Others. These movies are not over the top at all, they are movies that rely on good story telling, good acting, good premise, good exposition and I want to stay true to that in future projects.”

Thinking Want Stories Acting Baby Projects Originals Rely Viewers Haunting Premises Good Story Stay True Over The Top Sixth Sense Exorcist Good Acting Rosemary

Author:Oren Peli

“With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.”

Needs Stories Hero Villain Mixtures Adversaries Good Story Heroes And Villains

Author:Phil Keoghan

“Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.”

Stories Friendship Leader Vision Inspire Brave Guides Golden Chains Charm Heavenly Good Story Sunbeams

Author:Newell Dwight Hillis

“When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.”

Knows Stories Break Doors Depends Degrees Who You Are Missions Boundaries Memorable Barriers Good Story Who You Know

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”

Knows Want Writing Stories Courses Fraud Good Story Good Writers Likeable

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.”

Stories Values Increase Items Good Story

Author:Roy H. Williams

“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.”

Giving Trying Stories Audience Angry Movie Manipulation Manipulate Good Story American Movie

Author:Gene Siskel

“What I like best is a good story with a moral.”

Stories Moral Good Story

Author:Oscar Micheaux

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”

Wells Sometimes Reason Stories Theatre Good Story

Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

“There's no good story without romance.”

Love Stories Romance Good Story Romance Love

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“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.”

“A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.”

Writing Stories Photographer Lenses Good Story

Author:Habib Umar bin Hafiz

“History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.”

Stories Space Blank Good Story Blank Space

Author:Sara Sheridan

“I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.”

Ifs Feels Writing Ends Stories Sentences Good Story

Author:Amy Hempel

“What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.”

Persons Stories Simple Good Story Keep It Simple

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.”

Stories Inspiration Good Story

Author:John Pentland Mahaffy

“That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.”

Ifs Stories Pleasure Share Strange Good Story Strange Things

Book:We, the Drowned

Source: We, the Drowned

“It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.”

Ifs Writing Stories Checks Damn Comment Good Story Damn Good Detective Fiction

Author:Erle Stanley Gardner

“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.”

Writing Book Helping Stories Jobs Life Is Given Enjoy Interesting Advice Let Me Meaningful Practicals Meaningful Life Good Story Ecclesiastes

Author:Donald Miller

“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...”

People Matter Stories Stuff Dark Deals Horror Ordinary Catastrophe Ordinary People Transparency Good Story Masquerade Encroachment Devious

Author:Joy Williams

“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.'”

People Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Wells Book Stories Remember Asks Simple Interesting Focus Wonderful Good Book Good Story

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

Want Character Stories Interest Worry Reader Genre Good Story

Author:Stephen King

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

Should Stories Fighting Argument Debate Bars Discussion Provoking Occasional Good Story

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“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.”

Giving Mean Stories Dark Love Is Christianity Break Nice Doors Keys Messages Very Good Meaning Of Life Being Nice Incarnation Good Story Brokenness Life Means

Author:Michael Spencer

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

Knows Stories Know How Originals Entertaining Good Story

Author:Alma Alexander

“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.”

Want Reason Stories Interesting Argument Good Story Racket

Author:Sarah Vowell

“I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.”

Ifs Looks Character Stories Good Story Good Character

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“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.”

People Stories Film Watches Comedy Western Genre Good Story

Author:Ryan Kwanten

“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.”

“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.”

Firsts Stories Reading First Time Flow Sticks Journalism Honey Good Story Unanswered

Author:Arthur Christiansen

“Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.”

Writing Sometimes Stories Problem Running Process Steps Break Magic Crafts Problem Solving Breaking Down Good Story

Author:Roy Peter Clark

“With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.”

World Stories Artist Findings Creating And Love Relate Visuals Good Story Finding The One

Author:Don Bluth

“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”

I Can Stories Courses Talking Scripts Good Story

Author:Aaron Stanford

“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.”

Persons Stories Humor Funny Religious Behinds Atheist Reasonable Good Story Religious Person

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“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.”

Needs Stills Stories Doors Heard Good Story

Book:Captivated: The Donovan Legacy

Source: Captivated: The Donovan Legacy

“A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.”

Stories Break Doors Boundaries Barriers Good Story

Author:Blake Mycoskie

“If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.”

Ifs Stories Good Story Good Experiences

Author:Simon Sinek

“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.”

People Enough Stories Strong Cities Opinion Written Brave Lawyer Dirty Strong Enough Beans Good Story Malls Statistician Bean Counters

Author:Spencer Antle

“Good stories are constructed, not found.”

Stories Found Good Story

Author:Warren Spector

“Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged.”

Needs Stories Half Silence Exposed Silence Is Good Story Climax Half The Story

Author:Deva Premal

“I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.”

People Trying Stories Film Culture Novel Streets Draws Thought Provoking Entertaining Provoking Good Story

Author:Spike Lee

“A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.”

Stories Mediums Good Story

Author:Michael Arndt

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