I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive. — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??” — Ryan North Copy Share Image
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
For me, making a mass film is tougher. A lot of things needed to be intertwined into a two-hour narrative without getting… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.' — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right. — Dwane Casey Copy Share Image
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
