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Narrative Quotes by Peter Straub
- Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the…
- From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
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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
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- 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
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a… — Samuel Johnson
- Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's… — Mia Freedman
- We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin