I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them. — Hildur Gudnadottir Copy Share Image
Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them. — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have a narrative and to have a point with your music and to be going somewhere with… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead… — Kevin DeYoung 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
