There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves.… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no… — Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman Copy Share Image
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the… — Don DeLillo 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
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all… — John Currin Copy Share Image
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
I think I created my own narrative, being a guy who kind of got chewed up and put through the grinder and… — D'Angelo Russell Copy Share Image
When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any… — Johann Most 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
That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative...… — Sarah Moon Copy Share Image
If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
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