Narrative Quotes · Page 2

“where all is known, no narrative is possible.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

— N.D. Wilson

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

— Jenny Saville

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

— Amanda Ripley

Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity.

— Kevin Reilly

Television has been breaking narrative rules.

— Matt Duffer

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

— Cole Sprouse

My god is narrative filmmaking.

— Darren Aronofsky

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

— Asghar Farhadi

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

— Fred Armisen

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

— Larry Wilmore

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

— Fahadh Faasil

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

— Ron Fournier

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis

My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

— David Shields

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most…

— Sarah Stillman

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

— Julianne Moore

Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.

— Elvis Mitchell

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

— Clive James

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're…

— Miriam Toews

I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about…

— Cindy Sherman

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making…

— Christopher Nolan

If you dare go out and criticize Hillary Clinton, they'll call you "attacking the girl," "unfairly the attacking the girl" or "unfairly…

— Rush Limbaugh

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to…

— Tony Kushner

Just like Hillary Clinton is against the miners, she is against the police, believe me. Those peddling, the narrative of cops as…

— Donald Trump

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a…

— Daniel Handler

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

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have…

— Aaron Koblin

What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by…

— Diane Wakoski

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the…

— Oliver Sacks

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but…

— Walter Kirn

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is…

— Jeanette Winterson

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic…

— Suzanne Gordon

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination…

— Lewis H. Lapham

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes,…

— Mariana Mazzucato