Narrative Quotes · Page 14

People make their own narrative, the media makes their own narrative.

— Mark Ingram II

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

— James Gunn

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

— Nathan Lowell

“...a true narrative like time and tide must run its course and would respect no man.”

— Thomas Hardy

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

— Charlize Theron

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative?

— Daniel Cameron

“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?”

— Eugene L. Lowry

I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.

— Hiro Murai

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives…

— Joe Scarborough

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to…

— Chantal Joffe

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct…

— Joel Achenbach

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader…

— John Updike

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative…

— Ben Lerner

This impeachment narrative started before President Trump was even nominated to the Repub - as the Republican candidate.

— Dagen McDowell

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a…

— Marianne Wiggins

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War,…

— H. W. Brands

I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.…

— Kevin Wilson

...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon…

— Roland Barthes

I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science…

— Brian Greene

When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to…

— John Scalzi

Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make…

— Peter Heller

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out…

— Rick Alverson

“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that…

— Don DeLillo

“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay…

— Brian Koppelman

This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons…

— Eric Morgenstern

“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about…

— Tom Bissell

“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Much like Ella, I'd found myself with an excess of words, the wealth of which far exceeded the pathetic limits of my…

— Aleksandar Hemon

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

— Jeremy Bolt

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

— Joshua Prager

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

— Janet Evanovich

I think the whole narrative of blockchain without bitcoin will amount to very little.

— Fred Ehrsam

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

— Henry Giroux

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

— George Armstrong Custer