Quotes of: Good-stories Keyword

One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one." "Always?" I ask. "Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach!

The Rent Collector

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you s...

Brent Weeks

A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles....

Djimon Hounsou

I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still avail...

Craig Ferguson

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and a...

East of Eden

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

Josh Hartnett

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

Michael Cera

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

Ricky Skaggs

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

Sam Raimi

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

Tibor Kalman

When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author's getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: "Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply ...

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Everyone tells a story about themselves in their own head. That story makes you what you are, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes. If your own story is filled with guilt and fear and self-hatred, life can look pretty miserable.But, if yo...

Leo

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

The Aleph and Other Stories

Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub." Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.

The School for Good and Evil

My father said it was a delightfully odd - and dangerously self-destructive - quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories.

Lost in a Good Book

When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house.

Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Ken Follett

Bastian's Father: Good morning, Bastian. Bastian: [trying to get the lid off of a jar] Morning, Dad. I had another dream, Dad, about Mom.

The NeverEnding Story

Tracy Lord: You're too good for me, George. You're a hundred times too good. And I'd make you most unhappy, most. That is, I'd do my best to.

The Philadelphia Story

He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it ...

The Edge