Trying to tell a narrative throughline while also doing something that's physically demanding... it's just challenging, and you don't know if it… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“do: WORK ON THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE; THERE’S A NARRATIVE FLOW. IT’S YOUR JOB TO CONSTRUCT MEANING FOR YOUR LIFE. WHAT… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, as women and women of color, we are put as supporting characters in other people's narratives. With 'Jessica James', she is… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly,… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the… — Stacey Levine Copy Share Image
“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
![“I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, 'Hey there's a great spot in the movie [The Hangover] where we need a little bit of a breath in the narrative. You should write a song and stick it in there.' And I was like, 'Well, what should the song be about?' And he said…” quote by Ed Helms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/599/ed-helms-4996_bits_i-was-just-fooling-around-with-the-piano_858074.jpg)
