Narrative Quotes

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

— Jenny Saville

“where all is known, no narrative is possible.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I tried to control the narrative.

— Lance Armstrong

“Remembering a narrative alters it.”

— Gregory Benford

“God is the STRUCTURE of Life, not the Narrative.”

— Mike Philbin

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

— N.D. Wilson

You write your own narrative.

— Jason Kelce

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

— David Benioff

I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.'

— Lee Isaac Chung

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.

— Dwane Casey

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

— Gabe Newell

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

— Griffin Dunne

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the…

— Dylan Thomas

I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what…

— Karan Johar

We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of…

— Tanya Saracho

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and…

— Megan Mullally

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…

— Paul Auster

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly…

— David Grann

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the…

— Calvin Trillin

Oftentimes, as women and women of color, we are put as supporting characters in other people's narratives. With 'Jessica James', she is…

— Jessica Williams

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…

— Donna J. Haraway

A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.…

— Jennifer Egan

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative…

— Kristen Stewart

I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call…

— Nalo Hopkinson

[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by…

— James Berardinelli

When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit.…

— Eleanor Catton

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one…

— Roger Ebert

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he…

— Sabina Murray

“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said…

— Oliver Sacks

A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.…

— Robert J. Shiller

“I'll tell you how the sun rose A ribbon at a time... It's a living book, this life; it folds out in…

— Donald Miller

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite…

— Nidhie Sharma