Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was -… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear,… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and… — Trudie Styler Copy Share Image
The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Larger game teams are often a bit more experienced at working with writers, which is often a huge relief. However, it also… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
If we were controlling the performance, we never would have had someone push a button to make the pellet stove come on… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying thing for me, improv. It's a complete lack of control of both narrative and performance. Once you let… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
The Democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for Washington every day. And whatever that narrative is, the Republicans… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
