Disclosure Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics…

— Lionel Shriver

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

— Barry Ritholtz

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

I have to find the story relatable or at least interesting to be a part of it. Then there are times when I take…

— Mohan Joshi

Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as…

— Wally Pfister

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

— Nancy Kress

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

— V. S. Pritchett

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how the public…

— Mike Colter

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a…

— Julianne Moore

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt