We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley Copy Share Image
Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story,… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and… — Finn Andrews Copy Share Image
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's… — Mia Freedman Copy Share Image
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted. — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives… — Aurora Guerrero Copy Share Image
How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this… — Josephine Humphreys 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
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our… — Rebecca Walker 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
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
