Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.' — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative. — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me,… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives,… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image