I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though.… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
There was a narrative sown in the U.K. for so many years that we were disliked by Europe, and some people may… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the… — Stacey Levine Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps… — James Welling Copy Share Image
“Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
There's a narrative out there about Republicans being not just anti-illegal immigrant, but anti-immigrant. It was very important to me to break… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Aaron Dessner is an expert at letting the narrative carry the story. He's reminding me constantly of the importance of space and… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do,… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
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