Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in… — Martin Buber
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch… — Marisha Pessl
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:… — Roland Barthes
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. — Don DeLillo
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished… — Thomas Pynchon
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us,… — Rebecca Walker
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting… — Mark Twain
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his… — Michel Faber
History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go. — J. R. Moehringer
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create… — H P Lovecraft
As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What… — Stephen King
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural… — Michael Eric Dyson
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost… — Jonathan Kozol
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal… — Rebecca Solnit
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of… — Jeanette Winterson

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