Narratives Quotes

102 Narratives quotes by 96 unique authors

Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether… — J R Ward
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of… — Lorrie Moore
One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a… — Philippa Gregory
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their… — George Eliot
So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe… — Tim Wise
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to… — Joe Hill
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we… — Cheryl Strayed
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? — Ethan Zuckerman
New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is… — David S. Goyer
I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives. — Lucy Walker
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla… — Alison Jackson
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives. — Dinaw Mengestu
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that… — Varley O'Connor
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. — Jonas Gahr Store
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage… — Jonas Gahr Store
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do… — Robin Marantz Henig
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans,… — Serge Schmemann
We live in a time when the values of courage and honesty, particularly for women writers, equate to confessing only the darkest, most painful parts… — Rebecca
Your consciousness is an opening to the divine. When you're aware that all these cultural narratives are just fabricated illusions to control you from being… — Jeremy Limn
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod

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