Colleen Atwood Quotes

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

I like to make something different and interesting.

The world would be a boring place if we all looked the same.

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

I just like to do different parts.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.