“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly… — David Grann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“do: WORK ON THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE; THERE’S A NARRATIVE FLOW. IT’S YOUR JOB TO CONSTRUCT MEANING FOR YOUR LIFE. WHAT… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a… — Randy Ingermanson Copy Share Image
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
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