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
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
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
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
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
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David Copy Share Image
I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn 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
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill 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
I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.” — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).” — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen Copy Share Image
One of the main things that seemed understandably frustrating about lots of popular narratives was the one-dimensionality of a veteran's story. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I’m just going to put you inside one with somebody… — Kameron Hurley 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
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison 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
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's… — Arthur Smith 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
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.” — Natsume Soseki Copy Share Image
Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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