One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album,… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.” — Todd Hido Copy Share Image
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“We like stories, we like to summarize, and we like to simplify, i.e., to reduce the dimensions of matters…the narrative fallacy is… — Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
To me, music and songwriting is... part of the intriguing thing is the creative process; you know, the creative thought process. Relying… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters)… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's… — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. — Christopher Eccleston Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I just focus on my character and how pivotal it is to the narrative. I don't mind even a 10-minute role, if… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the… — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
