Quotes About Narrative

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

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

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

The best defense is a good story.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.