Browsing Topic Best Good Story Quotes

A photographer is like a writer… you’re writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.

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.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it’s a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

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.

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.

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 tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you’re describing, when you’re setting the scene and everything. It’s like you’re painting a picture, so details are very important. Also, the music gotta be right. The music can really set the tone for the story and let you know what the story is gonna be about, but definitely, it’s the vibe in the place where you at and the detail.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

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

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.

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.

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

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

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

I try to write about complex issues–young people in an adult world– full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms– the adventure, the mystery, the thriller– so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn’t turn out that way he didn’t let the fact get in the way of a good story.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That’s how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, ‘You gotta build it.’ I say, ‘I have to believe in it.’

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.

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.

When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.

It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.

There’s nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn’t just a good story-it’s a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

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.

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don’t know the director. If there’s a good screenplay, there’s a chance that something good is going to happen.

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

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

People just want good stories.

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.