Story Format Quotes

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

It was 'ST' format to let space and alien worlds, rather than human weakness, provide the conflict and danger necessary to our adventure show.

All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading.

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

The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a solo ongoing. Whether or not they're named Captain America or Ruby Thursday matters less to me than whether or not their characterization is consistent and actions logical... storytelling concerns.

There are some stories that can be told in two hours and some in 20 minutes.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.

Not all stories are meant for the big screen.

Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

BoJack' is a very much a format-based show. The story should always match the format, but I don't necessarily think the story has to come first.