The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
'Machine' was one of the biggest decisions I have taken in my life - it was the best narration till date. It… — Kiara Advani Copy Share Image
landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
“Given neither talent, nor glory, but only tragedy, the story of our main character begins to unfold.” — Tokyo Ghoul Copy Share Image
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our… — Jack Brickhouse Copy Share Image
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and… — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
“If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“What this typographical distinction should make immediately apparent in the passage is the highly subsidiary role of narration in comparison to direct… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports… — Malik ibn Anas Copy Share Image
“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
“...Quite the narration in your head, even for a moment, and see for yourself that life is life, and not one minute… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.'… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When I choose the scripts, all I look forward to is an impressive narration. — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.” — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
“...a true narrative like time and tide must run its course and would respect no man.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
“Nervousness and excitement were two sides of the same coin, but Vere still couldn’t make heads or tails of what he was… — Merry Knightly Copy Share Image
I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
Trying to get the sentences right and the structure of the narration right is about as big a job as I can… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works,… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image