I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I'm at the point now where I don't really have an agenda. I kind of let things flow, and there's not a… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“Most of all I told this story because I wanted to say something about hope and the absence of it, and how… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates… — Christine Jones Copy Share Image
I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story,… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people… — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
![“Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms.” quote by Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/mark-ravenhill-28127_alternatives_voltaire-s-novel-candid-offers-us-parall_2653885.jpg)
