Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
We love working within the Sparks three-and-a-half-minute song format, but we also like the extended format of a narrative project. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life… — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean 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
“For me, where genre ends and literature begins doesn’t matter. What matters is whether a given novel hits me with high impact.… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give… — John Berger Copy Share Image
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their… — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and… — Fiona Barton 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
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. — David Shields Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening.… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
