A Good Story Quotes

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

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

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

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

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

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

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

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.

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

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

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

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.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

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.

There's no good story without romance.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

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.

To find a good story, you’re generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn’t mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives.

Your Life Doesn’t Need A Happily-Ever-After To Be A Damn Good Story

A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.