had a flair for the narrative

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

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

— Mark Twain

“The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from and why…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the…

— Rebecca Solnit

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in…

— Edith Wharton

“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out…

— Amal El-Mohtar

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

— Morgan Neville

“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

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I…

— Peter Guber

A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative.

— Brad Parscale

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag