I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them. — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story.… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“You don’t want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden. There’s something horribly unfair… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
Most people are glad for somebody else to share their own story of how they have found spiritual help. The problems start… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative. — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.' — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
