Narrative Quotes · Page 9

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

— John Gregory Dunne

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

— Steven Knight

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

— Jill Biden

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

— Hisham Matar

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

— Neil MacGregor

“There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.”

— Kathy Acker

“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even…

— Refaat Alareer

'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my…

— Eric Schlosser

“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety…

— Deanna L. Lawlis

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

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

From a narrative perspective, 'Blue Shift' for the PC and 'Blue Shift' for the Dreamcast are very similar.

— Randy Pitchford

'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed…

— Gulzar

The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring…

— George Will

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any…

— David Mamet

"The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go…

— Scott Snyder

Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that…

— Paul Fussell

“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition…

— Jacqui Stedmon

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever…

— Susan Sontag

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super…

— Kerry James Marshall

“There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to…

— Emily Perkins

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,…

— Guy Maddin

The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people…

— George Saunders

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…

— Samuel Johnson

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high…

— James Berardinelli

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the…

— Oliver Sacks

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a…

— Mark Twain

“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and…

— Keith Ridgway

“Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.”

— Ian McEwan

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

— Chath Piersath

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

— Nick Cave

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”

— Mark Twain

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

— Brian Eno

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

— William Zinsser