I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes.… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design,… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our… — Jim Steranko Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Muslim communities are the ones that going to see radicalization happening at a mosque or hear it in the community or even… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
We didn't grow up in any sort of meaningful representation in media apart from, you know, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee.… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Technology allows us to weed out a lot of the extraneous circumstances that can happen in certain environments. If you have an… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
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