Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I… — Saschka Unseld Copy Share Image
I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The narrative of, 'You won an award, so you're going to skyrocket' - it's very emotive language but not necessarily true. I've… — Georgina Campbell Copy Share Image
I tried so hard to be a more avant-garde, less narrative filmmaker, but it just didn't come naturally to me. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was -… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
