Narratives Quotes

102 Narratives quotes by 96 unique authors

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
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. — Julio Olalla
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood. — Lucy Grealy
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that… — Pranab Mukherjee
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the… — Joseph O'Neill
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a… — Jonathan Lethem
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't… — Jonathan Lethem
The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts… — Paul Davies
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians. — Ava DuVernay
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the… — Ava DuVernay
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. — Danai Gurira
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. — Michael Cunningham
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though… — Stephen Greenblatt
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting… — Hari Kunzru
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in… — Gary Gutting
A trial is two narratives competing for your attention. — Harlan Coben
Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique. — Oliver Sacks
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more… — Thomas Cahill
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a… — Steven Hall

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