Stories Quotes - Page 222

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Piper reads the scripts, and we email a lot. Most of her comments are on the more technical side, like "This wouldn't happen. This is against the rules." She's been extremely respectful of our taking her story, and then veering left with it and taking it in its own direction. But, I always want her involved because she's the mother of all this.

There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

Human beings are psychologically far more afraid of bugs than they are of driving a car, whereas people get killed by cars every single day, and there is hardly ever a story of people getting killed by bugs.

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.