“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They… — David Simon Copy Share Image
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can.… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship… — Rania Attieh Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new… — Jonathan Granoff Copy Share Image
Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
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![“TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.” quote by Tucker Max](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8ed/tucker-max-2064_bits_tv-has-a-longer-narrative-and-tv-s-more_1900530.jpg)
![“Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on knowing whether what you're happy about, on unhappy about, has a basis in fact, or is merely a reflection of the "narrative.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a24/george-weigel-9372_bases_then-catholics-owe-pope-the-loyalty-that_1212464.jpg)
