I wanted to be cleared up about that Lost Weekend. I've heard enough of the myth. It was frustrating, but I let… — May Pang Copy Share Image
Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
“We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
“It was all the answer Rook needed. He plunged his hand into the soil, long fingers grasping down. This was no offering… — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.” — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer.… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
“I’d believed in that story, the story of us. It was still there, that antiquated fairy tale notion. I was older now,… — Ute Carbone Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there’s a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
