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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

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. — Baz Luhrmann

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story. — Shia Labeouf

Life tells you many stories... but allows you to write your own.
Its your job to make it good"
Victor Ghoshe — Victor Ghoshe

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories. — Richard Branson

Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job. — Amy Argetsinger

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good. — Dhani Jones

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

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

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. — Jennifer Aniston

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

Keep your Eyes on All that's Good and Beautiful and Possible in the World. Because "The Stories We Tell Create the People We Become. — Jacqueline Lewis

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. — Joss Whedon

God is the creator of all good plot twists! — Shannon L. Alder

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

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

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard

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

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different. — Keri Russell

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan

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

Good marketers tell a story. — Seth Godin

I just wanted ... "
Aaron stepped closer.
"To kiss you good-bye," he finished for Greg. — Tibby Armstrong

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. — Julianna Baggott

Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories — Nourhan Mamdouh

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

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

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

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books. — Lauren Weisberger

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works. — Ernest Hemingway,

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe. — Mary Pipher

It's good to pass on stories. — Jami Attenberg

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

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. — Jennifer Aniston

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor. — Michael Cera

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

The last story: God is everything, God is good. — Byron Katie

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

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it. — O. Henry

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. — Thomas R. Insel

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them. — Maeve Binchy

In the end our lives are nothing more than simple stories. It's good to occasionally step back and make sure you are the one writing. — Jacob Mandel

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. — Sam Raimi

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories — Alethea Kontis

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change. — Chuck Palahniuk

The mind is good with stories, but it does not appear to be well designed for the processing of time. — Daniel Kahneman

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy

My stories are never quite good enough. — Anne Tyler

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories. — John Krasinski

What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own? — Robert Jordan

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good. — Jessica Lynch

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story. — Q-Tip

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

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe

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

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good? — Matt Stone

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

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

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

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished. — Marina Warner

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. — Ryan Phillippe

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

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

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done. — Chris Brogan

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

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones. — Chauncey Depew

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior. — Daya Kudari

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. — Ian Hislop

God, he was an evil bastard, but boy was he good! — MFR

Sad stories make good books — Khaled Hosseini

Our stories are what we have," Our Good Mother says. "Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand? — Julianna Baggott

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

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing. — Diane Setterfield

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

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

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot. — James Norton

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

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories. — Josef Koudelka

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

Although your marrows look very good, it's not them I'm interested in.. (The Honesty Box) Love Potion — Samantha Bacchus

People just want good stories. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. — Kate Morton

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

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

It's hard to find good stories now. — Seth Dickinson

If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy! — Kyousuke Motomi

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener! — Steve Martin

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

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. — Steven Knight

We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us. — Tori Amos

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'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

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy. — Jim Cummings

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

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V.S. Pritchett

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland. — Walter Isaacson