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Great Story Quotes

the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you... Arundhati Roy
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in. Katherine Heigl
John Piper quote: "But we also need stories. Great stories."
But we also need stories. Great stories. John Piper
William Shatner quote: "The basic quality that any great story must have is a story..."
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. William Shatner
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story. Tom Selleck
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Every great love starts with a great story..."
Every great love starts with a great story... Nicholas Sparks
Stephen Sommers quote: "The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story."
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story. Stephen Sommers
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything. Don Bluth
It was a great story and I admired her. And I also felt a little envious. Because that bloody tampon had been a secret weapon. And every woman had one. But only a woman like Debby would be brave enough to use it. Augusten Burroughs
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your..."
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories. Chuck Palahniuk
Alfred Hitchcock quote: "A great story is like life with the dull parts taken out."
A great story is like life with the dull parts taken out. Alfred Hitchcock
All their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C. S. Lewis
To tell a great story, you really do have to step through the box that the world has put around you; you have to see it. You have to see what the world has defined you as. And you have to refute it in language that the world will understand. ... Repay the debt that kept you alive, you will make an art and you will take a leap. And, oh God, I hope you get all the way over to the other side. Because some of us don’t. Dorothy Allison
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. C. S. Lewis
For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. Julio Cortazar

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