Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. — Mark Bernstein
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps… — Chris Hedges
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew… — Tobias Wolff
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race,… — Alexander Pope
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's… — Edward Zwick
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of… — Thomas Keneally
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like… — Shane Black
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… — Thomas B. Macaulay
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there… — Emma Thompson
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood. — Lucy Grealy
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.… — Tony Kushner
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join… — Albert Goldbarth
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework… — Paul Ricoeur
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and… — John Podesta

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