Beings Quote by David Hare

“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.”

— Bryant McGill

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath…

— Ali Smith

When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that I, as…

— Katherine Boo

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

— Kehinde Wiley

“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,…

— Glenn Ligon

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about…

— Melissa Febos

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

— A. S. Byatt

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess,…

— Alison Jackson

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones