Narrative Quotes · Page 25

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first…

— Alan Moore

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,…

— Mike Nichols

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be…

— Steve Stoute

I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them.…

— Guy Maddin

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

— Graydon Carter

Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on…

— George Weigel

“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even…

— Alice W. Flaherty

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent…

— Roy Kesey

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within…

— Paul Ricoeur

“Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!”

— Mikhail Bulgakov

What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and…

— Mathew Knowles

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

— Khaled Hosseini

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living,…

— Peter Jackson

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into…

— Christina Baldwin

“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too…

— Patricia Rozema

The Democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for Washington every day. And whatever that narrative is, the Republicans…

— Rush Limbaugh

I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it…

— Shane Black

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a…

— Mira Nair

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any…

— David Mamet

If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates…

— Christine Jones