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The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being. — Anthony M. Esolen

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen. — Patrick Carman

A really good horror film has a story. — Dee Wallace

A wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. — Suzanne Selfors

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

Tell a good story. — Wayne Aubry

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story. — Chris Van Allsburg

I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels

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. — Amy Hempel

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. — Depak Chopras

A good story is read, a great one takes you with it! — James F. Timmins

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story. — Sidney Zion

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

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence. — Chuck Palahniuk

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself. — Richard Ford

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. — Clive Barker

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

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. — Stanley Fish

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story. — Andrew Vachss

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. — A.D. Posey

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer. — Tim Pratt

Good marketers tell a story. — Seth Godin

It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'
'Please,' I said.
And then he did. — Hanya Yanagihara

At work, he pretended every woman customer was a floozy with a hard-luck story who only needed a good slapping. — Tim Dorsey

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. — Erle Stanley Gardner

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener — Antonia Michaelis

I may do some good before I am dead
be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. — Thomas Hardy

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

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? — Bill Willingham

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

Behind every drama is a good story ... behind every tear is the person who wrote it. — Faye Hall

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up. — E.L. James

Learn to live, love and laugh ... And to enjoy a good story when there is one to be heard. — Val Edward Simone

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story. — Pedro Almodovar

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. — Veronica Purcell

As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good. — A.D. Posey

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth. — Isabella Stewart Gardner

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story. — Euripides

A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it. — G. Willow Wilson

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. — Sara Sheridan

Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle. — Suzette R. Hinton

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. — Artie Lange

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. — Donald Miller

Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea. — Rebecca Paula

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next. — Laura Innes

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing. — J. Michael Straczynski

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. — David Sedaris

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child. — Margaret Wise Brown

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight. — J. Michael Straczynski

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' — Ruth Rendell

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor — Cornelia Funke

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid. — Luc Sante

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story. — Rutina Wesley

Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one? — Sharon Weil

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. — Aeriel Miranda

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner — Michael Chabon

I think I'm always drawn to a good story. — Jamie Campbell Bower

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story. — John Pentland Mahaffy

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden. — Mac Barnett

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music. — Sam Hunt

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn. — Cathleen Falsani

We pride ourselves on making a good history of our lives, a good story to be told. And — Terry Pratchett

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward
one inevitable conclusion — E.J. Patten

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

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story. — Donald Miller

We need only two persons in our life - just you and me; and I think we can make a good story together. — Raj Singh

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. — Raymond Chandler

A man with a good story is practically a king. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it. — Sarah Koenig

What I like best is a good story with a moral. — Oscar Micheaux

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit. — Adam McKay

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

A good story is a journey...the destination is only where it ends. — Alan Smithee

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

Why do bad things happen to good people?'
'Because it makes a good story. — Andrew Kaufman

Don't let a few silly truths muddle up a good story. — A.C. Gaughen

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

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

I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good. — Daniel Jacobs

It's no sin to tell a good story. — Steven Heighton

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story. — Roger Sutton

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen. — Taylor Hackford

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best. — Steven Moffat

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good. — Hiroyuki Sanada

I almost never let reality get in the way of a good story. — Elizabeth Bard

You shouldn't whitewash it. He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully. — Walter Isaacson

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey. — Lynne Rae Perkins

Maybe the princess could save herself."
"That sounds like a pretty good story too. — Marissa Meyer