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Quotes About Narrative

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
~ Jonathan Sacks
We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.
~ J.A. Konrath, Origin
God is an author, and we are His best story.
~ Cier Galla
A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
~ Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
~ Mark Twain
I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.
~ Colleen Haskell
A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.
~ Glennon Melton
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
~ Raymond Chandler
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
~ Donald Miller
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
~ Sid Caesar
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
~ O. Henry
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
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 inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
~ John Updike
The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
~ Evan Esar
I think I'm always drawn to a good story
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
Our children's children will hear a good story.
~ Richard Adams
A good book is an education of the heart.
~ Susan Sontag
Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
~ Tiger Woods
What I like best is a good story with a moral.
~ Oscar Micheaux
A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.
~ Walt Disney
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
~ Mark Twain
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
~ Michael Arndt
A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.
~ Mathias Dopfner