Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what,… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's… — Juliana Rotich Copy Share Image
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore 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
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Jokes and movies, comic books and professional wrestling, television shows and news programs—they all present dramatic interpretations of facts and fiction in… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history,… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“When engaging youth with the Bible-as-story, we must be wary of our impulse to “clarify” what’s happening in a given narrative, to… — Sarah Arthur 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
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
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