“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.” — Eric Karpeles Copy Share Image
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash Copy Share Image
“linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
You can be doing something and you have your narrative in your head, but that only means that to you - there's… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels,… — David Liss Copy Share Image
When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human… And although you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is… — Patrick O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, independent of literary rules and grammar conventions, is the ability to build, play, experiment, sculpt, weave with words, sounds, texture and… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on… — Javier Marias Franco Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative. — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit. — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
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