Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of… — Andrew Solomon
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which… — Darren Aronofsky
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. — Griffin Dunne
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or… — David O. Russell
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediahâ€™s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality inÂ OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and… — David Limbaugh
Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. — Jay Maisel
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
Itâ€™s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by… — David Brooks
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these… — Robert M. Utley
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. — Todd Haynes
We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply… — Lydia Davis
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. — Carmen Laforet
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a… — Robert Olen Butler
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. — Robert Fisk
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. — Nick Hornby
From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a… — Stuart Dybek
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a… — Sara Gruen
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third… — Jeffrey Eugenides

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