Audience Quote by Max Lucado

Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and…

— Vijay Sethupathi

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

— Frank Darabont

“3-minute story The 3-minute story is exactly that: if you had only three minutes to tell your audience what they need to know, what…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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

There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.

— Paul Sparks

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

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

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

— Ring Lardner, Jr

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

— Henry David Thoreau

Come along it is the break of day. Surely now, you'll have some things to say. It's not the time for telling tales on…

— Sia

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

Sometimes I just want to tell a story regardless of whether it fits what the show is saying. I’ve been in a lot of…

— Louis C. K