Late Quote by John le Carre

Enter the story as late as you can.

— Chuck Wendig

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

— Tobias Lindholm

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

— Oscar Wilde

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

— Frank Darabont

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

— Ring Lardner, Jr

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading…

— Richard Price

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

— Alastair Campbell

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

— Dodie Smith

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Sometimes you don't find out why you needed to tell a story until you're telling it.

— Misha Green

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

— Homer