There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
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I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“Reading Scripture as a coherent narrative rather seems to me to invite reflection on how all present human conditions, those of being… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what,… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Here's my theory: I think both fiction and role-playing games involve a narrative journey. When that journey never ends, it feeds an… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
As a friend at a major American newspaper said to me when I complained about this tendency in his own paper, "You… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to counterprogram Trump, if you will. Hillary doesn't know how to go out and write her own… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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