I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
In other parts of India, be it Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, the villain is celebrated as much as the hero, not only… — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's… — Michael Warren Copy Share Image
There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, independent of literary rules and grammar conventions, is the ability to build, play, experiment, sculpt, weave with words, sounds, texture and… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is… — Patrick O'Neill Copy Share Image
“...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on… — Javier Marias Franco Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I quickly developed this false narrative that my self-worth was directly related to how skinny I was or how I looked. — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When we tell girls that we expect them to pursue education and excel in education, we are changing the narrative and are… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
“It’s widely acknowledged by many pundits that we no longer live in an age of news, but of narrative as news. But… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Referring to ISIL as a destructive religious cult rather than a legitimate theo-political 'radical Islamic' group is not just more accurate, it… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image