Narrative Quotes · Page 11

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

— Kumail Nanjiani

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

— Michael Cunningham

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

— Robert Benton

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

— Haruki Murakami

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

— Thomas Carlyle

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

— Jon Hopkins

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough…

— Lydia Davis

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his…

— Elif Batuman

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of…

— Matthea Harvey

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different…

— Marjane Satrapi

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able…

— James Arthur

I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives…

— Joss Whedon

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what…

— Carlos Fuentes

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but…

— Stephen Greenblatt

There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is…

— Werner Herzog

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it,…

— Charles de Lint

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential…

— Rachel Cusk

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society…

— Kim Hyesoon

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and…

— Fred Ritchin

I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a…

— Bernard Herrmann

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted…

— Dave Brat

My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension…

— Micah Perks

MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER…

— Shane Claiborne

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand,…

— Thucydides

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact…

— Kevin Keck

“[…] detective novels are not novels of detection, still less of revelation, still less of solution. Those are all necessary, but not…

— China Miéville

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in…

— Joan Didion

GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a…

— Roger E. Olson

I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too…

— Patricia Rozema

The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“Even if you don't believe in god or fate, at least you can believe in narrative.”

— Richard Silken

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

— Asghar Farhadi

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

— Garry Winogrand

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

— Larry Wilmore

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

— Fred Armisen

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

— Fahadh Faasil

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

— Matthea Harvey

“If you don’t formulate your own narrative, you become a pawn in someone else’s.”

— James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology