Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because… — Tom Stoppard
The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell… — Matt Taibbi
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent… — John Updike
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous… — Christoph Waltz
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz
We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed. — Joss Whedon
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national… — George Will
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way… — E. O. Wilson
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque… — Martin Filler
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways… — Evgeny Morozov
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces. — Hanna Rosin
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -… — Douglas Rushkoff
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current… — Douglas Rushkoff
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability… — Douglas Rushkoff
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind… — Neil Postman
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. — Jeanette Winterson
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious… — Terry Pratchett

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