“If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.” — Eberhard Jüngel Copy Share Image
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
From a narrative perspective, 'Blue Shift' for the PC and 'Blue Shift' for the Dreamcast are very similar. — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if… — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes.… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's… — Michael Warren Copy Share Image
“None of the harvest tales started out as parasites. They were the most powerful pieces of the narrative, once upon a time.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest. Then… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Simply raising the theme of animals in the Third Reich means that our narrative is no longer only an account of what… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“If you don’t formulate your own narrative, you become a pawn in someone else’s.” — James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
