Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human.... And although you don't have complete control… — Toni Morrison
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. — Timothy Radcliffe
A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety. — John Dufresne
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma… — Mark Slouka
This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing â€“ by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesnâ€™t move forward all at… — Elizabeth Sims
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction â€” there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must… — Marco Tempest
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage… — Hope Edelman
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs… — Sheena Iyengar
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments… — Marilyn Hacker
I tried to control the narrative. — Lance Armstrong
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main… — Rebecca Solnit
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible… — Stanley Kauffmann
The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to… — Margaret Starbird
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might… — Laura Hillenbrand
Specificity is the soul of narrative. — John Hodgman
If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the… — Christine Jones
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne
I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with… — Stephan Jenkins
One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives. — Kiki Smith

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