Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans,… — James A. Michener
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. — Samuel Johnson
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever… — Stephanie Mills
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has… — Bruce Chatwin
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work… — Kiki Smith
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of… — Robert Pinsky
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more… — Thomas Cahill
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. — Michael Kimmelman
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the… — Dylan Thomas
It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed… — Robert Draper
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the… — Jonathan Gottschall
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror,… — Bernard Herrmann
As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates… — Lev Manovich
Thereâ€™s no way to really preserve a person when theyâ€™ve gone and thatâ€™s because whatever you write down itâ€™s not the truth, itâ€™s just a… — Steven Hall
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba

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