Narrative Quotes · Page 2

Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.

— Leslie Jamison

I hear music as narrative.

— Ajay Naidu

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

— John Hodgman

You can reclaim your own narrative.

— Paula Broadwell

Change the narrative, change the laws.

— Ani DiFranco

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

— Roy Sekoff

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

— Virgil Abloh

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

— Tommy Lee Jones

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

— Dries van Noten

Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised.

— Elvis Mitchell

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

— Viola Davis

“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.”

— Eric Karpeles

“linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,”

— Jill Talbot

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

— John Lamb Lash

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

— Li-Young Lee

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

— Rod Blackhurst

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other…

— Adam Rapp

“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

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

— Rush Limbaugh

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Trying to tell a narrative throughline while also doing something that's physically demanding... it's just challenging, and you don't know if it…

— Emma D'Arcy

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

— Hiro Murai

“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in…

— Teddy Wayne

It's the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets,…

— Chris Hayes

The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true…

— Anthony Doerr

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating…

— Bill Callahan

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.……

— Noah Richler

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have…

— Alicia Garza

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives…

— Haruki Murakami

The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship…

— Paul Copan

“When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,…

— Bruce Holland Rogers

“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive…

— Hillary Clinton

“The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work…

— Alexis Lykiard

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than…

— Xiaolu Guo

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a…

— Oliver Sacks

Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage…

— William J. Clinton