Everything Quote by Julie Plec

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

— Tom Herman

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

— Paulo Coelho

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,

— Ian Mcewan

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work…

— Damon Lindelof

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

— Evan Daugherty

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

— Edith Pattou

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down,…

— Salman Rushdie

Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper…

— Charlie Jane Anders

“Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.”

— Ian McEwan

“Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It’s a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it’s the least important factor.…

— Libbie Hawker

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of…

— Nahnatchka Khan