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
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood. — A. S. Byatt 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
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
When I choose the scripts, all I look forward to is an impressive narration. — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic. — George Newbern 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'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
“The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration… — Barry Hannah 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
If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are… — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
“Stop letting fear leach into your voice,” Luca snaps from behind Rhiannon. “If the dragons think you’re a coward, you’ll be nothing… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for… — Jayne Loader Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
“I say "her", because I don't recall having been present, not in any meaningful sense of the word. I and the girl… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something… — Eric Idle 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
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“What was to change many lives happened, and happened very fast in the next moments.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
![“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic…” quote by Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/roman-payne-1959_advice-for-writers_i-ran-across-an-excerpt-today-in-english_2690369.jpg)
