I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative… — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative.… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Whether people are making narrative cinema or experimental cinematic movie experiences, they all want the biggest screen possible and the quietest room… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
We are opinionated society. We're very happy to spout forth our own views; we're not good about listening. We have to listen… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
“It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
“Probably this has always been the case: once an action is recounted, for intransitive ends, and no longer in order to act… — Barthes Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We believe the explanation we hear last. It's one of the ways in which narrative influences our perception of truth. We crave… — Michelle de Kretser Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create a stand-in or avatar with whom the reader can identify, but separate, believable characters with distinct personalities;… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
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