I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the…

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a…

— Shane Black

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

— Sam Waterston

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

— Randy Pausch

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

— Henry James

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation…

— George Bernard Shaw

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's…

— Alan Bennett

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by…

— Jamie Chung

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

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

— Deborah Kass

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

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

Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the…

— George Soros

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley