Also Quote by Richard Bausch

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you…

— Glenn Close

Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens…

— James Scott Bell

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

— David Mamet

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

— Nancy Kress

I'm trying to make sure that the visual connections between the disparate elements are strong enough for the viewer to keep moving through the…

— Chitra Ganesh

I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

— Taylor Sheridan

I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first and do…

— Scott Snyder

“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along with a…

— Giles Colborne

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the…

— William Devane

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot…

— Karen Robards

I went to drama school so I had quite a regimented classical training, regimented process of analyzing a script. I'll go through the whole…

— Ncuti Gatwa