If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. — Anne-Marie Slaughter 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
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“Willful blindness” may hinder us from discerning the critical fault lines in the narrative of our life. Our memory may obliterate then… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.… — Kevin Wilson 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
