I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects. — John Madden Copy Share Image
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off. — John Grant Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the… — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying thing for me, improv. It's a complete lack of control of both narrative and performance. Once you let… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There's the internal rhythm within a sequence, and then there's the rhythm between the sequences, and that's extremely important in constructing the… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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