Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
For me, making a mass film is tougher. A lot of things needed to be intertwined into a two-hour narrative without getting… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge,… — Mandy Aftel Copy Share Image
Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
