Douglas Wilson Quotes

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I'll take any story if it's good.

Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.