A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
While the story about the hunt for bin Laden has been exhaustively reported and the key sources and witnesses are in agreement… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Klein’s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halper’s study… — Lloyd Grove Copy Share Image
“A story is nothing more than a reproduction of the order of the world on a purely verbal scale. A replica of… — Ricardo Piglia Copy Share Image
Comics have the page as their real estate so you've only got that space to tell the story on. But the other… — Leah Moore Copy Share Image
The first mistake in the New York Times is worrying about granting Trump access. They're not "granting" Trump access. Trump is commanding… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting,… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met [with Hillary… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear,… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial… — Hart Bochner Copy Share Image
The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I think I've learned to be mindful. I may not have taken the time to try to understand narrative techniques, let's say,… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
80-percent of 'Enter the Void' is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it's more similar to 'Jacob's Ladder' or 'Videodrome' than it… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
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