Quotes About Narrative

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.