Expectation Quote by Ted Morgan

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

“The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Bad choices make for interesting stories”

— Matthew Bracey

We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised extensively; they are complex and baffling and ambiguous; they tend…

— George Saunders

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into…

— Erving Polster

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances”

— Santosh Avvannavar

We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and…

— Ed Mayo

“This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine…

— Heidi Julavits

“I don't understand this at all. I don't understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics... culture... history... aren't…

— Stephen King