Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne 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
'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many… — Rebecca Serle 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
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“Narratives, stories, help create a deeper sense of shared identity. They generate meaning and foster cooperative actions through neurochemical correlates that kick… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
“What, you thought that one story was somehow more real than all the others, just because it’s the one that has the… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling… — Stephen P. Kiernan 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
The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“For as long as she can remember, telling stories has been her momma's gift to those around her, fables filled with rich,… — Sara Stark Copy Share Image
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“But the moment we reimagine the world as a buzzing hive of individuals with a variety of genders and complicated sexes and… — Kameron Hurley 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
