I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial… — Hart Bochner Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.…… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
By swallowing the false narrative of systemic racism, we have demonized and criminalized police while turning criminals into civil-rights martyrs. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one… — Michael Paterniti Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political… — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
