I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's… — Michael Warren Copy Share Image
You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
