“Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative. — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
If you're able to appeal to a broader market, you can make an entertaining narrative film. Whereas a documentary is something that… — Nick Searcy Copy Share Image
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved,… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
It's easy to think of a role-playing game as an amalgamation of two main components, narrative and gameplay, jammed together like pieces… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes,… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
“The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
![“Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one we did with Keegan Michael-Key - they really are little hero narratives. The whole "Save the Day" - it's called that, specifically, for a reason - ethos is there is this heroic act called…” quote by Joss Whedon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/817/joss-whedon-480_concepts_apart-from-a-couple-that-were-just-havin_918769.jpg)
