Take the Gospel parables: what are these stories, these…

A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were…

— Anthony de Mello

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're…

— Alexander Payne

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape and logic…

— Alain de Botton

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about…

— Melissa Febos

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

— A. S. Byatt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Narratives can be misconstrued.

— Jordan Poole

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess,…

— Alison Jackson

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,…

— Glenn Ligon

Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the…

— Jonas Gahr Store

“Our reflection of action occurs in different contexts which may influence us to shape our accounts in different ways for different audiences - our…

— Jacqui Stedmon

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

— Jonas Gahr Store