Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E L Doctorow
My shows are not narratives. — Brian Eno
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. — Brian Eno
I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. — Asghar Farhadi
At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human… — Gary Hamel
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the… — Tommy Lee Jones
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative… — Barbara Kruger
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I… — Milan Kundera
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever… — David LaChapelle
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing… — Jen Lancaster
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or… — Hilary Mantel
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people… — Hilary Mantel
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. — Ian Mcewan
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan

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