To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
This impeachment narrative started before President Trump was even nominated to the Repub - as the Republican candidate. — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of… — Masha Gessen 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
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life".… — Philip Kitcher 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
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I think it was around the time of doing those shorts. [Producer] Christine Vachon, I had a meeting with her, and she… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
![“I think it was around the time of doing those shorts. [Producer] Christine Vachon, I had a meeting with her, and she mentioned the short, this AOL short, and asked if I wanted to do one. And then the next step was the "30 for 30," and again that boosted my confidence enough to decide I'm going to…” quote by Katie Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d73/katie-holmes-6657_agency_i-think-it-was-around-the-time-of-doing_1645545.jpg)
