I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm at the point now where I don't really have an agenda. I kind of let things flow, and there's not a… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love.… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human… And although you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story,… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people… — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
