I just focus on my character and how pivotal it is to the narrative. I don't mind even a 10-minute role, if… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's… — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
“That's the great truth of failed relationships, the narrative and the absence of narrative. Each time you tell the story, it makes… — Stephanie Reents Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I… — Saschka Unseld 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
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Much like Ella, I'd found myself with an excess of words, the wealth of which far exceeded the pathetic limits of my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons… — Eric Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
“Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters)… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.” — Todd Hido Copy Share Image
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album,… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
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