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Narrative Quotes by Paul Ricoeur
- The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It…
- Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
- First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework…
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- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood
- The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks
- The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos
- You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos
- I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. — Cate Blanchett
- While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks
- It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other… — Gabriel Byrne
- Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me… — Meg Cabot