Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
“Our reflection of action occurs in different contexts which may influence us to shape our accounts in different ways for different audiences… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened,… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize. — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
“...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You are a born storyteller," said the old lady. "You had the sense to see you were caught in a story, and… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
