When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted. — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset. — Alexander De Croo Copy Share Image
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I've been toying around with the whole 'how to' genre for a little while actually. I just love that style of editing… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
