Believe Quote by Lurlene McDaniel

Some stories feel like they need more time or less time to tell. To not obsessively have to trim or add that final two…

— Judd Apatow

Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There's nothing stopping us from trying to do that…

— Nancy Dubuc

So many stories are determined before they start.

— Lionel Shriver

“Unless a story has a specific ending you know when you start it then a story is as long as a story needs to…

— Ray Daley

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that…

— Steven Spielberg

There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes.

— Karthik Subbaraj

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

— Frank Darabont

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

— Mary Norton

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

— Lord Byron

Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Ring Lardner, Jr

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people…

— Brit Marling