I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative.… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the nature of representation; every time we represent something we alter it and slightly change it. And so with that as… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We love working within the Sparks three-and-a-half-minute song format, but we also like the extended format of a narrative project. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story.… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics,… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political… — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
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