Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
We love working within the Sparks three-and-a-half-minute song format, but we also like the extended format of a narrative project. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
For me, it's always about using my platform to give people an alternative narrative, because we all need to upgrade our mindsets. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
