Quotes About Engagement

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

I don't always enjoy them, but when a scary movie has a really good storyline, that gets me interested.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

I have decided to dub on my own for my role in Vazhipokkan. It is an interesting storyline and hence I accepted the offer.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

I'm a good storyteller.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

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

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.