Audience Quote by David Mamet

Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens…

— James Scott Bell

For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other…

— Julie Plec

You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how the public…

— Mike Colter

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the…

— Karin Tidbeck

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until…

— Lucy Prebble

Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence…

— Larry Brooks

Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

— Nina Tassler

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character…

— Richard Bausch

I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.

— John Tiffany

I always approach storytelling with the idea that the audience will get it. They understand almost better than we do, because they get to…

— Salim Akil

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale