I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Most of my films have revolved around international politics. So the locations you have seen so far in 'Ek Tha Tiger' and… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For me, a tour show should have a narrative; it should have an arc. It shouldn't just be, "Here's one joke, here's… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video… — Jon Jon Augustavo Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the… — Dan P. McAdams Copy Share Image
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong… — Colleen O'Connor Copy Share Image
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
This impeachment narrative started before President Trump was even nominated to the Repub - as the Republican candidate. — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
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