Common Quote by Sarah Stillman

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act…

— Hari Kunzru

It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow…

— Kevin Macdonald

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it…

— Panos Cosmatos

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping…

— Khaled Hosseini

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath…

— Ali Smith

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch

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

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to…

— Carol Shields

When I storyboard, they're just fragments of thoughts. I write in three acts like a movie, so I have my plot points up on…

— Janet Evanovich

You really have to hold as many stories as possible in your hands before you figure out how to tell your singular story in…

— Nia DaCosta