Quotes About Story

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

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

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

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

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

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 look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

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.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.

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.

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

I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

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

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

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.