Narratives Quotes

102 quotes by 97 authors

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by… — Geraldine Brooks
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. — Mark Twain
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the… — Michael Warren
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates,… — A.M. Homes
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Bruce Holland Rogers
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a… — Charles Stross
What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We… — Jane Fonda
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
When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in… — Walter Brueggemann
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans… — Andrei Lankov
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace… — Benjamin Zander
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
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
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history. — Jonathan Coe
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the… — David Whyte

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