Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling -… — Ryan Trecartin Copy Share Image
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them. — Jacqueline Woodson 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
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan 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
I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video… — Jon Jon Augustavo Copy Share Image
