Quotes About Narrative

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

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

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.