Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are… — Paul Auster
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative… — Margaret Atwood
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of… — Iain Banks
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos
I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. — Cate Blanchett
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by… — Geraldine Brooks
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned… — Gabriel Byrne
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world… — Meg Cabot
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world… — James Cameron
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. — Graydon Carter
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. — Nick Cave
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. — Lord Chesterfield
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and… — Aaron Koblin
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the… — Wayne Grudem

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