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 designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives. — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I think change is happening in ways we can't anticipate yet because the whole generation of viewers who are viewing films -… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
