“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
People make their own narrative, the media makes their own narrative. — Mark Ingram II Copy Share Image
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Deep resentment and passive dislike due to erroneous ideas are unsettling.” — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating… — James Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you how the sun rose A ribbon at a time... It's a living book, this life; it folds out in… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative. — David Kim Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative,” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.” — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
![“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive audience, and I’ve never felt like the American electorate was receptive to this one. I wish so badly we were a country where candidate who said, ‘ my story is the…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/hillary-clinton-51_narrative_the-biggest-reason-i-shoes-away-from-emb_2539055.jpg)
