Stories Quotes - Page 171

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

Every movie is a love story.