Books Quote by H. W. Brands Download Open image “If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.” — H. W. Brands ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Draws Good Good story Readers Story
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 Copy Share Image
I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character. — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
For any film or any web show, the story dictates everything. If it is a good story, it obviously has good characters in it. — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.” — Hillel F. Damron Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of sobering, civilizing effect that being president imposes on people. There is a certain kind of dignity with which… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The shelf life of a seventh-year State of the Union address is about five minutes. Presidents can propose stuff. They're probably not likely to… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
When you look at the development of the American presidency, you see that the presidents who have had the greatest impact are the ones… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image