Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates,… — A.M. Homes
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. — Elif Batuman
If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a… — Jonathan Granoff
Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning — Arlene Goldbard
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre,… — Nadia Abu El Haj
Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative. — Roy Sekoff
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Bruce Holland Rogers
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would… — Peter Orner
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were… — Walter Isaacson
But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots… — Mark Sutcliffe
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers… — Lynn Nottage
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich
Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims… — Jaclyn Friedman
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a… — Charles Stross
Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return.… — Jeanette Winterson
What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We… — Jane Fonda
Unlike scandal-monger Ed Kleinâ€™s fantastical No. 1 best-selling narrative about the supposed Blood Feud between the Clintons and the Obamas, Halperâ€™s study is juicy and… — Lloyd Grove
On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing… — Dennis Lehane

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