I don’t really look for a script and go, ‘I need to do a thriller, so I’m going to do this.’ I just read scripts and look for the best possible story. – Alex Pettyfer
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it’s just not what I want to do. – George Murray
I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done. – Chad Kelly
There’s nothing wrong with a male’s point of view, obviously, but it’s just a different way of telling a story. – Melanie Griffith
Someday we’ll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’ But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation. – Frank Rich
For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America. – Elizabeth Blackburn
If I’m stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn’t, I still feel better. – Max Apple
Once I’ve discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity. – Michael Ondaatje
There’s no dancing girls. We’re kinda like secondary to the thing. It’s a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens. – Eric Carr
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don’t do what she would do in the situation. I’m always like, ‘Well, she has to do that because that’s what the story is.’ – Dallas Roberts
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us. – Mary Augusta Ward
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. – Gloria Steinem
They’re just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don’t think that’s a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you’d have to do it. And I’d want to do it. – Craig T. Nelson
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story. – Frank Darabont
I’m a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that’s sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting – whatever it is. – David Carson
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story. – Don Miguel Ruiz
This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We’re telling the story of ‘Daredevil.’ In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn’t seem to have a conscience. – Elodie Yung
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story. – Damon Lindelof
I’ve wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of. – Michelle Paver
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. – Gore Vidal
It’s often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that’s true, but the problem is that most of them aren’t worth telling. – Michael Korda
If it wasn’t for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn’t have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels. – Drew Sidora
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. – Dale Archer
The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist. – Nancy Kress
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture ‘Little Dancer Aged 14,’ which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque. – Cathy Marie Buchanan
