Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its… — Todd Alcott Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The narrative of, 'You won an award, so you're going to skyrocket' - it's very emotive language but not necessarily true. I've… — Georgina Campbell Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage 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
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative… — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose.… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political… — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics,… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
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