Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

How plotless real life was!

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

You just write about things that happen.

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.

In real life, I am alarmingly boring.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

Movies are different from real life.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

I've actually always started with what feels most natural. Which is, the people who surround me in my daily life. So, the first show I ever wrote, which is called 'Surface Transit,' was based in part on people I knew from my family. Co-workers, ex-boyfriends. All of that kind of thing.

My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the reason I think I wrote it was because it was too damn quiet when I was young, and I wanted people to come out and talk. And they do. There's so much dialogue in 'The End of Vandalism.'

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.

It's pretty simple to me: we come from a really grounded world where anything you say could be the thing that the scene becomes about. We're always treating it as if we would treat it in real life. It's all observation.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

You know, 'Cheers,' you didn't have to leave the bar because what they were saying in the bar was important. 'All In The Family' is the same rule. On 'The Golden Girls' they didn't have to leave the table. And 'Friends' - the coffee shop. You can contain it if it's interesting.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

The way I view drama is life with the boring bits taken out.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

Life would be boring without gossip.