Anything Quote by Martin McDonagh

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

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

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead…

— Gloria Steinem

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

— Laurie R. King

Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing…

— Judd Apatow

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

— Greg Egan

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

— Arthur Smith

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from…

— Amy Sedaris

I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the…

— Zara Cox