Audience Quote by Walter Murch

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that…

— Carmen Agra Deedy

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story…

— Jeff Bridges

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

— Tyler Hoechlin

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know…

— Julianna Baggott

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two…

— William Golding

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

— Ira Glass

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices…

— Jeanette Winterson

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound…

— Ann Beattie

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard