Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying thing for me, improv. It's a complete lack of control of both narrative and performance. Once you let… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's… — Mia Freedman Copy Share Image
If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them,… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“The name Maldoror, suggesting as it does evil, gold, horror, dawn, sadness etc., seems a curious hybrid, but on reading the work… — Alexis Lykiard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you… — Michael S. Smith Copy Share Image
I tried so hard to be a more avant-garde, less narrative filmmaker, but it just didn't come naturally to me. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
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