My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have a narrative and to have a point with your music and to be going somewhere with… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for… — Olaf Carlson-Wee Copy Share Image
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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