Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 455 authors

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. — Toni Morrison
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes
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
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it. — George Lucas
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
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
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
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. — Joan Didion
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. — Julianne Moore
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
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
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. — Julio Olalla
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking — Darren Aronofsky
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
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. — John Lamb Lash
For me, itâ€™s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work â€“ itâ€™s really about getting it just right. You have… — Evelyne Brochu
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
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-personÂ narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly originalÂ child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation toÂ readers… — Katharine Weber
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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