People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I want the vetting to be solid. But I also want to bring these people in because not bringing them in sends… — Michael Morell Copy Share Image
I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is… — Patrick O'Neill Copy Share Image
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a… — Julian Barnes 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
Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives… — Chris Lehane Copy Share Image
I think I've learned to be mindful. I may not have taken the time to try to understand narrative techniques, let's say,… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no… — Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman 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
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
