The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political… — Michael Rostovtzeff Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics,… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose.… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The images that people see in the media of black people - whether journalistic or narrative - remain horrible. And those images,… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the… — Jeremy Coon Copy Share Image
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“Much like Ella, I'd found myself with an excess of words, the wealth of which far exceeded the pathetic limits of my… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons… — Eric Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit. — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy. — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
