If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I've been toying around with the whole 'how to' genre for a little while actually. I just love that style of editing… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I think when you go in, with film or television, you want to tell this narrative. And with 'Joshy,' you want it… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever… — Shura Copy Share Image
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique…If there had been someone… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and… — Keith Ridgway Copy Share Image
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset. — Alexander De Croo Copy Share Image
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted. — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
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