Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice -… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
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