I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you how the sun rose A ribbon at a time... It's a living book, this life; it folds out in… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson 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
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I think, with the balance of personal narrative, narrative continuity, and aesthetics, I always lean into what's interesting to me. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they… — Craig Finn 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
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
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