Tobias Hill Quotes

I love a really good storyline.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

Well, I'm always drawn to the drama first. A story is really only interesting to me, if you can remove all of the genre moments and remove the supernatural element, and it still works. Then, I'm interested.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.