Narrative Quotes
565 quotes by 455 authors
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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
— Toni Morrison
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
— Shonda Rhimes
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There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded…
— Marilynne Robinson
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If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
— Peter Morgan
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The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
— George Lucas
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MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a…
— Shane Claiborne
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't…
— Patrick Marber
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Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to…
— Susan Sontag
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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
— Joan Didion
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We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.
— Julianne Moore
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Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under…
— Dana Perino
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The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a…
— James M. Kouzes
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Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.
— Julio Olalla
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I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
— Darren Aronofsky
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John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists…
— Ron Rash
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The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.
— John Lamb Lash
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For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have…
— Evelyne Brochu
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Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
— James K. A. Smith
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Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers…
— Katharine Weber
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into…
— John Drinkwater
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