Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
I was like: the narrative should be that the work that we did was never paid for so Leave.E.U., by not registering… — Brittany Kaiser Copy Share Image
When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning. Every day liberals can create a new narrative that… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of… — Angie Klink Copy Share Image
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
My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“First and foremost, the most profound weapon a nation or special interest can possess is “control” over information. This contributes to control… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies Copy Share Image
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
I want the vetting to be solid. But I also want to bring these people in because not bringing them in sends… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes,… — Mariana Mazzucato 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
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In campaigns, the attacks that candidates make against their opponents define them almost as much as their positive agenda by creating a… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
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