Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of… — Jeff Kinney 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
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So,… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and… — Finn Andrews Copy Share Image
People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers 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
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner… — Margaret Starbird Copy Share Image
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it." — George Weigel Copy Share Image
We have been, obviously both in Maine and nationally, enmeshed in this false narrative that's based on a fear of immigrants, when… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a… — Mark Duplass 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
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know… — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the… — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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