Narrative Quotes · Page 4

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

— Virgil Abloh

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

— Robert Benton

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

— Michael Cunningham

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

— Haruki Murakami

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

— Thomas Carlyle

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

— Jon Hopkins

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

— Eugenio Montale

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the…

— Christoph Waltz

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

— James Gray

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible…

— Anonymous

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

— Graydon Carter

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the…

— Joan Didion

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only…

— E. L. Doctorow

I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.…

— Gregory Orr

A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore -…

— Edward Snowden

So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new…

— Tim Wise

I'm wondering if the Roger Ailes scandal in which more than 20 women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment is…

— Terry Gross

I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a…

— Atom Egoyan

People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be…

— Adam Rayner

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I…

— Brett Morgen

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high…

— James Berardinelli

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…

— Samuel Johnson

The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people…

— George Saunders

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,…

— Guy Maddin

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no…

— David Friedrich Strauss

“The air in the strange, familiar environment of this city is dense with story, and it draws me into thinking of life…

— Teju Cole

This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay…

— Brian Koppelman

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

— Stanley Kubrick

“If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.”

— Eberhard Jüngel

“There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative.”

— Doug Dorst

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

— Todd Haynes

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

— Hilary Mantel

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

— John Dufresne