If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was -… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I… — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The Democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for Washington every day. And whatever that narrative is, the Republicans… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
We've got the latest dump by WikiLeaks talking about what this really means in terms of Donald Trump's narrative of pay-for-play, so… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes,… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented,… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life… — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
