There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam
WritingLookingStoryYouCreate
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
Amanda Burton
ChildStoryLovedActorBeing
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
Harold Rosenberg
SuccessStoryAchieveAcceptBecome
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.
Mary-Kate Olsen
StoryTrueWriteGoingWhether
I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
Josh Segarra
LoveMeSongStoryPlaceThrough
The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.
Jes Macallan
WorkJourneyStoryFeelWayTell
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.
Chris Riddell
StoryDrawingBackWantKindWay
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
Walter Murch
StoryWonderTrainFirstWithout
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
Anish Kapoor
WorkStoryMeaningCircleWithout
I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
Piper Perabo
New YorkStoryTryingYearYouKnow
I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
M. Night Shyamalan
EthicsTreatStoryThinkYouTake
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
Tomi Adeyemi
WorkStoryRejectionYouOutMake
I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
Daniel Bryan
StoryThoughtAlwaysFascinating
The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.
Luke James
MeForwardStoryYouArtistLook
The action of 'Horse Soldiers' is back-dropped by the story of how America went to war with little time to prepare - but with a lot of moxie.
Doug Stanton
TimeWarActionStoryAmericaHorse
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
Adam Savage
JobStoryLongPaintWhereUsed
The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.
Melissa Rosenberg
GreatMoneyVoiceStoryThinking
I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
Bruce Nash
PeopleStoryTryingMindsTryTell
Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
Patrick Ness
FearRespectGreatStoryYouWant
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert
GirlTeacherDaySchoolStoryShort
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
H. P. Lovecraft
WritingStoryWeirdPlaceAchieve
We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'
Matt Besser
HateStoryEndStoriesThose
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
FriendPeopleBookStoryYouCopy
That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.
Jesmyn Ward
StoryThinkEndSurvivalBonesJust
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