Narrative Quotes · Page 31

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives…

— Viola Davis

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the…

— Jenna Bush

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I…

— Brett Morgen

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

— Jeremy Bolt

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular…

— Peter Straub

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

— George Weigel

In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching…

— Kevin Sessums

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.…

— Marilyn Hacker

Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google…

— John Battelle

I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where…

— Sarah Stillman

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a…

— Jerry Pinkney

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not…

— Jonathan Kozol

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

— Stanley Kubrick

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.…

— Paul Auster

It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society…

— Kim Hyesoon

In campaigns, the attacks that candidates make against their opponents define them almost as much as their positive agenda by creating a…

— Neera Tanden

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

— Jamila Woods

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

— Caroline Knapp

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

— Harlan Coben

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing…

— Ben Mezrich

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway…

— Steven Spielberg