The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Aaron Dessner is an expert at letting the narrative carry the story. He's reminding me constantly of the importance of space and… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“[…] detective novels are not novels of detection, still less of revelation, still less of solution. Those are all necessary, but not… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy. — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“8:37 Instead of narrative build-up, what if we have Icarus crawling right into the water - wings on, indifferent to flight -… — Thalia Field Copy Share Image
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