Make Quote by Jean Hanff Korelitz Download Open image “People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.” — Jean Hanff Korelitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Make Narrative Need Offer People Storytelling Up
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators and readers as well. It shows us that the untold life is not worth living. There will always be someone there to say, 'tell me a story', and someone there to respond. Were this not so,… — Richard Kearney Copy Share
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead . If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died? And then she occurred to her that she was the ghost… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share
“I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?” — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I like to wear bodysuits and things that make me feel really active and athletic and also really sensual. — Sophie Hawley-Weld Copy Share Image
If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation. — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make. — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
