...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War,… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that hearing a story—a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end—causes our brains to release cortisol and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but… — Emmanuel Lubezki Copy Share Image
Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
