Narrative Quotes

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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that… — Salman Rushdie
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. — Zadie Smith
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire… — Margaret Atwood
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world… — Cormac McCarthy
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind… — Nick Hornby
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way… — Arundhati Roy
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether… — J R Ward
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is,… — David Byrne
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with… — Elmore Leonard
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of… — Lorrie Moore
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Oneâ€™s lover is oneâ€™s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a… — Philippa Gregory
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their… — George Eliot
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't… — Jessica Stern
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy… — Daniel J. Siegel

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