Conscious Quote by Jodie Foster

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

— Robert Penn Warren

I'm taken by a story and a character. I'll read a script, and if it touches me and moves me and makes waves, that's…

— Ellie Bamber

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

— Mary Downing Hahn

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

— Paulo Coelho

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come…

— Asghar Farhadi

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

— Aaron Stanford

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose…

— Steve Denning

For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap…

— Barun Sobti

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to…

— Alexandra Fuller

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other…

— Summer Glau

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

— Sylvia Boorstein