Damon Lindelof Quotes

I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I do love storytelling.

I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

My main goal is to tell a story.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.