What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly,… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the… — Stacey Levine Copy Share Image
“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one… — Michael Paterniti Copy Share Image
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no… — Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman Copy Share Image
