Quotes of: Good-story Keyword

It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little bit, too, for telling it so well. Like I love Ms. Washington, in spite of myself, the first time I he...

Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you in the aisle seat of your flight to New York, spills peanuts all over the place (back when the cheapskate airlines at leas...

Naked, Drunk and Writing

I design, manufacture, distribute, and sell elevator buttons. I specialize in the fourth floor. And I don’t mean to brag, but I’m such a good salesman that I could sell one of my fourth-floor elevator buttons to the owner of a three-story buildin...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

God has equipped us with his Holy Spirit simply to tell our own story---the good, the bad, and the real. The best part is no one can argue with us. It's our story. And when others realize you don't need a degree in evangelism, they become empowered t...

Why Nobody Wants to Be Around Christians Anymore: And How 4 Acts of Love Will Make Your Faith Magnetic

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of...

Patrick Rothfuss

We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, and a shepherd boy steps forward to face the gian...

N.D. Wilson

If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, a...

G.K. Chesterton

I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole day—a whole week, even—without ever seeing your fam...

How They Met, and Other Stories

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on...

The Joy Luck Club

And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on...

The Joy Luck Club

[the team have just been asked to admit to any Communist connections, no matter how vague or distant, before they do the main broadcast against McCarthy - because he will us it as ammunition against them] Edward R. Murrow: Oh, if none of us had ever ...

Good Night, and Good Luck.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

The Enemy of the Good

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

Feud

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

The Adventures of the Omaha Kid

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

Simple Conversation

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice. We can choose to be taken by the evil. Or we can try to embrace the good.

My Story

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.

Novecento. Un monologo

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

Love Story

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

Selected Poems