American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini 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
It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image