“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though.… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
When it comes to the form the narrative will take, whether first person, third person, or Aunt Grace's cat, I usually find… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
A digital director shouldn't be out front, but a campaign manager's job is to set a narrative. — Brad Parscale Copy Share Image
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
