This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
Aaron Dessner is an expert at letting the narrative carry the story. He's reminding me constantly of the importance of space and… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is… — Aleksandra Mir 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
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever… — Shura Copy Share Image
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensational and often… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
