Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later. — James Gray
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society.… — James Howard Kunstler
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the… — Kate Bernheimer
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure… — Joanna Scott
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel,… — Nic Pizzolatto
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you… — Frank Miller
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science… — James Gunn
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. — James Gunn
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed… — Penelope Lively
For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to… — Michael Rostovtzeff
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading… — Robert Morgan
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. — Lascelles Abercrombie
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to… — Stephen Greenblatt
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes… — Jon Ronson
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to… — Terry Zwigoff
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less… — Nicholas Mosley
Partnerships are good engines for narrative. — Tommy Lee Jones
What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be… — Carlos Fuentes
And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan… — John R. Allen

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