As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman. — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
The media likes stories. We like narratives. we don't like facts. We don't like justice. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. — Martine Syms 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
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
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
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
“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
“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying,… — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen 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
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Narratives that were taken for granted when I was a kid are still there, but they don't have the same depth and… — Charles Eisenstein 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
“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
To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives. — Jose Antonio Vargas 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
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
