Good story Quotes · Page 9

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

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,…

— Valerie June

My sensibility is such that I automatically get drawn to films that have a good story, good characterization.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well.…

— Dwayne Johnson

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

— Donald Miller

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

— Laura Innes

I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.

— Pratyusha Banerjee

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

— Ben Stein

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go…

— Donald Miller

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I…

— Gil Scott-Heron

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle…

— Josh Radnor

I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it…

— Robert Southey

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in…

— Robert Hunter

Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The…

— Deva Premal

I think a good story, well told is a good story, well told, whether you're watching the episodes all in a row…

— Jenji Kohan

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also,…

— Jack Handey

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

— Nick Clegg

I did 'Padman' not only because of its social message. I did it because it was a good story.

— Radhika Apte

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

— William Bennett

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning.

— John Grisham

A good story is always you doing something wrong, you know? That's why nice people are so damn boring. I mean, they're…

— Bill Burr

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

These days, you don't need a song or glamour to make your film work. It is all about a good story.

— Bhumi Pednekar

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the…

— Anna Quindlen

“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be…

— Daniel Kahneman

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Mac Barnett

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is…

— Robert Harris

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

— Josh Trank

My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.

— Dutee Chand

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

— Sid Caesar

I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

— Peter Hedges

Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way…

— Bennett Miller

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

— David Levithan

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre…

— Atul Kulkarni

The good part about 'Aashiqui 2' is even before the shooting of film begins, it has garnered lot of attention. If it…

— Rahul Roy

“A good story invites us into someone else’s world where we learn, discover commonality, and leave with deeper understanding.”

— Lynda Cheldelin Fell

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a…

— Viggo Mortensen

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

— Roy H. Williams