Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“...re-writing the narratives that define us, making new meanings and imagining different endings. ... As our earliest caregivers transcribed our sensations, feelings… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or… — Jeroninio Almeida Copy Share Image
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the… — Jacques Rancière 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
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
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
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“The common cultural narratives would tell me that I somehow failed myself, that I’m a quitter or a loser, that I just… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“The question is, how do I balance narratives that are wonderful with narratives of wounds and self-loathing? And this is the difficulty… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Take the Gospel parables: what are these stories, these narratives, if not powerful invitations to people to locate themselves within the situations… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
