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  • In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  • Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

    "Anne Hathaway Engaged to Adam Shulman!" by Justin Ravitz, www.usmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.
  • My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

    Names   Desire   Stories  
  • But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

  • I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

    "'The Night Circus' looks to enchant fans of 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 19, 2011.
  • As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

    Roles   Stories   Done  
    Source: collider.com
  • You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

  • Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

    Stories   May   Fool  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

    William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

    Funny   Stories   Dull  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

    Reading   Class   Stories  
  • I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

    Source: www.preaching.com
  • Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

    Jobs   Writing   Islands  
    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.

    Real   Knowing   People  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    1994 In the Independent on Sunday, 5 Jun.
  • Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Drama   Simple   Reality  
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 17, 2011
  • The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

    Mistake   Writing   Men  
    James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
  • Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

    Stories   Way   Facts  
  • 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.

  • Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

  • I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

    Betrayal   Book   Writing  
  • I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

  • People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

  • 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.

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