If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In campaigns, the attacks that candidates make against their opponents define them almost as much as their positive agenda by creating a… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design,… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if… — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes.… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
There's the internal rhythm within a sequence, and then there's the rhythm between the sequences, and that's extremely important in constructing the… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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