When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Ideally, writers and narrative designers should be included much earlier in the process, where they can be of most benefit. However, although… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives,… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's what we call the 'critical path,' which is the main story line and all the missions that you have to do… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Detail is not ornamentation you apply to action and dialogue the way you add seasoning to food. It has a narrative function… — Daniel Galera Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I think there are many advantages to not knowing any of my prior work. The narrative threads, I think, are totally accessible… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
It's easy to think of a role-playing game as an amalgamation of two main components, narrative and gameplay, jammed together like pieces… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My studio practice is a - I suppose a bit more like [Thomas] Gainsborough or [Peter Paul] Rubens in the sense that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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