I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling -… — Ryan Trecartin Copy Share Image
I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace. — David Means Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
For us, since we entered the MCU as storytellers, and we picked up the story with 'Winter Soldier,' we've been carrying a… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I am a taxonomist, I work in the descriptive, narrative sciences of natural history. Unfortunately there is this status ordering from physics,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs.… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both… — James Gray Copy Share Image
'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on… — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
“This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
I had a lot of filler put in and it became my narrative in the media for about three weeks. But you… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution… — David Shields Copy Share Image
