Abstract Quote by Luke Temple

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't…

— David Lynch

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

— Don DeLillo

My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to…

— Karl Iagnemma

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

— Ben Gibbard

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people.…

— Johnny Flynn

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a couple of…

— Jon Hopkins

“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after…

— Alex Epstein

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements…

— Brion Gysin

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

— Fred Armisen

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch