Goals Quote by Renny Harlin

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand…

— Orson Scott Card

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

— Maria Semple

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

I'm interested in the small moment, in the minutia of things, and in the small moment, so I tend to tell stories that happen…

— Kelly Reichardt

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Telling stories comes naturally to me.

— Kunal Kapoor

Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good and still…

— Goldust

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really…

— Joe Robert Cole

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

My main goal is to tell a story.

— Stephen Sondheim