Biographies Quote by Antonio Damasio

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their…

— Beau Willimon

When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me…

— Misha Glenny

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are…

— Margaret Atwood

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then…

— Ava DuVernay

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

— W. Kamau Bell

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives…

— Claire Messud

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that…

— Kelly Link

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not,…

— Antonio Damasio

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just…

— Steven Hall

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or…

— Om Malik