Narrative Quotes

565 quotes by 468 authors

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which… — Ali Smith
I studied English Literature. I wasnâ€™t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the… — Christopher Nolan
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes
Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph. — Andrew Solomon
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does… — Lorrie Moore
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will… — Carolyn Heilbrun
Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved… — N.D. Wilson
Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,… — N.D. Wilson
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and… — Anthony Doerr
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and… — Dana Schutz
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere… — Karina Longworth
Narrative is the beginning of recovery. — Amanda Ripley
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you… — James Gunn
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not… — Thucydides
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. — George Armstrong Custer
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. — Ambrose Bierce
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They… — Chris Priestley
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. — N.D. Wilson

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