Top 100 Quotes About Good Stories
#1. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#2. Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.
Michael A. Stackpole
#3. It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
Ajay Naidu
#4. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Kim Edwards
#5. The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.
James Lafferty
#6. From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
Colin Morgan
#8. Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
Arthur Christiansen
#9. 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
#10. I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.
Keri Russell
#11. Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
Donald Miller
#12. One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one."
"Always?" I ask.
"Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!
Camron Wright
#13. 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.
Joyce Thompson
#14. I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.
Kim Wayans
#15. I contend that good children's stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That's another way of saying, "Let your characters grow. Up." And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, "Recognize you are grown up.
Jane Yolen
#16. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.
Stephen King
#17. Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.
Solita
#18. I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.
John Krasinski
#19. Essentially, I never know what I'm going to do until I read the script, but a good story is a good story. I would like to do more modern stuff, but ultimately, it doesn't matter to me - good stories are timeless.
Rupert Evans
#20. Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
Frank Spotnitz
#21. I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.
Scott Eastwood
#22. 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
#23. Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
William Landay
#24. 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
#26. I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.
Gillian Jacobs
#29. We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.
Dave Morin
#30. There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
Ryan Phillippe
#31. It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.
Henry Bromell
#32. When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
Henry Rollins
#33. When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.
Marques Houston
#34. An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
Brandon Mull
#35. Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen
#36. Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
Hilary Mantel
#37. I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
Marguerite Moreau
#38. Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories
Alethea Kontis
#39. Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?
Valerie June
#40. Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them ... For as long as you are green, you can grow.
Mother Teresa
#41. I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh
#42. All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is something in them that resonates with us. Courage. Love. Self-sacrifice. The storyteller makes his story real through the telling.
C.E. Laureano
#43. Good stories come from the heart, not the head.
Ken Farmer
#44. Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.
Jen Campbell
#45. Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories
Nourhan Mamdouh
#46. Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.
Miranda Cosgrove
#47. My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
Ethan Hawke
#48. I wondered if there was something sacred, something everlasting, about melted ice cream and summer days and good stories.
Natalie Lloyd
#49. We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.
Libba Bray
#51. In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story.
Flannery O'Connor
#52. When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for news, dropping into places to see what was up. Well, I could go to parts of Libya today and find lots of good stories, but I probably wouldn't be around to tell them.
Richard Engel
#53. The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature ... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond
#54. Bad decisions make good stories.
--from an Internet list.
Ellis Vidler
#55. When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
Hannah Simone
#56. Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth
Tad Williams
#57. You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
Michael Cera
#58. 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.
R.A. Lafferty
#59. I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
James Norton
#60. Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
Barry Hannah
#61. Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.
Mac Barnett
#62. 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
#63. I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
Emma Donoghue
#64. (I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation.
Drew Waters
#65. All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.
Mike Carey
#66. The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50)
Irving Seidman
#67. A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where all the good stories are swimming around waiting to be rescued from the soul."
Kathleen M. Rodgers ~ 1998
Kathleen M. Rodgers
#68. George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer ... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
#69. I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.
Emma Donoghue
#70. As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
Neil Jackson
#71. I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.
Corin Nemec
#72. Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
Alice Munro
#73. Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
Alison Owen
#75. I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
Joel Kinnaman
#76. I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
Angela Bettis
#77. As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Stephen King
#78. 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 incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes ...
Joy Williams
#79. History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
Sara Sheridan
#80. That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.
Chigozie Obioma
#81. Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
Alice Munro
#82. I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
C. C. H. Pounder
#83. And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
Sophie Marceau
#84. It pleases me to meet you, Valkyrie. I've heard stories."
"Good stories or bad stories?"
"All stories are good stories," he smiled, "even the bad ones.
Derek Landy
#85. I like good stories above all else ... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
Robert Kirkman
#86. The small lives of women don't make for good stories. That's why there were no girls in the stories Myrddin told, unless they were there as a prize for the hero to win at the end of his adventures.
Philip Reeve
#87. Good writing - good stories - are the imagination's firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable.
Stephen King
#88. You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
Donald Miller
#90. As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.
Pete Hamill
#91. There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon
#92. Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.
JD Era
#93. You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.
John Leguizamo
#94. I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
Kate Morton
#95. There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.
Stephen King
#96. 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
#97. In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity. Alas, like many good stories this one appears to be apocryphal. According to Einstein himself, he was simply sitting in a chair when the problem of gravity occurred to him.
Bill Bryson
#99. I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
Marion Cotillard
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