Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 4
Eugenio MontaleNarrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder Votes: 4
Paul RicoeurNarrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Votes: 4
Thomas CarlyleNarrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. Votes: 3
Paul RicoeurTo have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Votes: 2
Lord ChesterfieldI like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Votes: 2
Bruce SpringsteenThe lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. Votes: 2
Stephen MalkmusMusic is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Votes: 2
Carter BurwellThe narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. Votes: 2
Robert CooverYou know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. Votes: 2
Jeff BezosTo have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Votes: 0
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldAll writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. Votes: 0
Michael KimmelmanWe are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. Votes: 0
N.D. WilsonPoetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. Votes: 0
Delia ShermanSouthern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Votes: 0
Robert MorganI'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. Votes: 0
Susan SontagI've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. Votes: 0
Robert WilsonThe viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. Votes: 0
Gregory CrewdsonWriting children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. Votes: 0
Helen DunmoreI don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. Votes: 0
Mo IbrahimThe best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. Votes: 0
Peter GreenawayThe poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. Votes: 0
Edward HirschWord, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. Votes: 0
Fred RitchinThere is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. Votes: 0
E. L. DoctorowEven a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. Votes: 0
William ZinsserI would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. Votes: 0
Asghar FarhadiI am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. Votes: 0
Lydia DavisMovie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. Votes: 0
Robert BentonThe pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. Votes: 0
Robert CreeleyThe novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. Votes: 0
Randall JarrellIf Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. Votes: 0
Rick AtkinsonYou believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people. Votes: 0
Elizabeth McCrackenYou can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is. Votes: 0
Frank SpotnitzThat's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. Votes: 0
Bradford Cox'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. Votes: 0
David BenioffMost of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. Votes: 0
Barbara KoppleSimply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative. Votes: 0
Jamais CascioFashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. Votes: 0
Rita OraFiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative. Votes: 0
Paolo BacigalupiThe most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. Votes: 0
John Lamb LashMany Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative. Votes: 0
David KimThe ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. Votes: 0
Johnny DeppThere's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. Votes: 0
Bruce FeilerThe narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. Votes: 0
John Gregory DunneOne of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. Votes: 0
Gabe NewellI prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. Votes: 0
James GunnNo matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. Votes: 0
Joshua PragerIn both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. Votes: 0
Ted CruzSome write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. Votes: 0
William CowperEverything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post. Votes: 0
Kara SwisherI don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. Votes: 0
Shane CarruthI want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy. Votes: 0
Jason GannSome graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper. Votes: 0
Elizabeth McCrackenI like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them. Votes: 0
Kevin StarrMusic is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Votes: 2 Carter Burwell
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Votes: 1 Aminatta Forna
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies. Votes: 1 Jonas Gahr Store
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 1 Eugenio Montale
I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important. Votes: 1 Michael Wolf
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes. Votes: 4 Andrew Neel
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not. Votes: 3 Rob Roberge
The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that. Votes: 3 George Will