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To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

~Drew Roy

Topics: Caught Fun Genre Get Good Good Story Great Honest Just Like Me Put Scenario Setting Story Telling Tells Up Whatever You

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With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

~Dwayne Johnson

Topics: Action Action Films Butt Characters Driven Films Good Good Story Great Interesting Interesting Characters Just Kicking Like Nothin Story Though Well

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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: About Accurate Challenge Characters Creating Dangerous Fair Fiction Fictional Good Good Story Historical History Hopefully Need Novels Our Record Same Same Time Story Telling Time Weaving Writing

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It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Become Being Better Burns Goes Good Good Story Hard History Interested Just Ken See Story Times Want Who

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I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Conflict Good Good Story Makes One Of The Things Story Things Think I Think

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I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

~Ellen Burstyn

Topics: Did Director Good Good Story Left Make Out Rough Said Script Story Them Universal Want Well

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I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

~Eric Jerome Dickey

Topics: Bringing Characters Choosing Creates Good Good Story Illusion Imagination Just Light Live People Random Real Rewriting See Story Strictly Think Trying Which Words World Write

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Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

~Eric Nylund

Topics: Any Cornerstone Good Good Story Story Tension

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When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Before Big Comfortable Considering Element Fall Feel Generally Going Good Good Story Hubris Idea Involved Lot Pride Stories Story

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

~Erin Morgenstern

Topics: Good Good Story Hallmark More Others Readers Really Speaks Story Than Think I Think

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