“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte 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
“Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps… — James Welling Copy Share Image
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There's a narrative out there about Republicans being not just anti-illegal immigrant, but anti-immigrant. It was very important to me to break… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So,… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the… — Michael Copperman Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
“After a significant loss, it's tempting to live life in the past - wishing it had been different, screaming that it was… — Eleanor Haley Copy Share Image
“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative. — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off. — John Grant Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
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