I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people… — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating. — Fahadh Faasil Copy Share Image
I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
Trying to tell a narrative throughline while also doing something that's physically demanding... it's just challenging, and you don't know if it… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety… — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the… — Lynn Emanuel Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
