As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace. — David Means Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose 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
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law,… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that… — Grimes Copy Share Image
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
