Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should… — Johann Most
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V.S. Naipaul
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow… — V.S. Naipaul
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. — Howard Nemerov
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton
If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story… — Clive Owen
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or… — Steven Pinker
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than… — Alan Rickman
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality.… — Steve Sabol
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes… — Stan Sakai
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. — Jerry Saltz
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the… — Will Self
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. — Sidney Sheldon
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there… — Jane Smiley
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on. — Arthur Smith
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer… — Steven Spielberg
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. — Bruce Springsteen
There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought… — Kristen Stewart

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