For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy. — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“8:37 Instead of narrative build-up, what if we have Icarus crawling right into the water - wings on, indifferent to flight -… — Thalia Field Copy Share Image
I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
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![“Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."” quote by Aisha Hinds](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cc7/aisha-hinds-19362_canada_thank-god-for-canada-in-the-context-of-t_2218193.jpg)
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