It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes,… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented,… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The Democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for Washington every day. And whatever that narrative is, the Republicans… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset. — Alexander De Croo Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
By swallowing the false narrative of systemic racism, we have demonized and criminalized police while turning criminals into civil-rights martyrs. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The whole narrative of the 'Return to the Land' was completely PR spin. Fans ate it up because it painted LeBron as… — Joy Taylor Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
