With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked,… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“I cannot bring myself to even idly wish any of it—not even the most painful parts—away. Eighteen years. Change even one moment,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my… — The Weeknd 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
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence.… — Lee Martin Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
“Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives… — Chris Lehane Copy Share Image
I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
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