Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries van Noten
Elizabeth Taylor was the first star for whom an offscreen narrative was equally as important as an onscreen one. Her private life became as much… — William J. Mann
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at… — Simon Schama
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or… — Philipp Meyer
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come… — Eleanor Catton
Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative… — Anthony Albanese
Through the potent example of his own life, President Obama enabled us to believe the best about America, and, therefore, about ourselves. That uplifting narrative… — Cynthia P. Schneider
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders… — Dave Brat
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are… — Adam Rapp
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative… — Roma Downey
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies. — Isabella Rossellini
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue… — John Updike
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that… — Annette Bening
A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to… — Mo Ibrahim
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently… — Robin Marantz Henig
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly… — Edward McKendree Bounds
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may… — Gloria Steinem
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz

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