Quotes about Narrative

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Votes: 4

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder Votes: 4

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Votes: 4

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place. Votes: 4

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. Votes: 4

Narrative is the beginning of recovery. Votes: 3

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric. Votes: 3

Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information. Votes: 3

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information, Votes: 3

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. Votes: 3

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us. Votes: 3

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. Votes: 3

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. Votes: 3

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. Votes: 3

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. Votes: 3

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job. Votes: 3

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand. Votes: 3

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic. Votes: 3

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. Votes: 2

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. Votes: 2

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. Votes: 2

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. Votes: 2

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Votes: 2

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. Votes: 2

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Votes: 2

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. Votes: 2

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Votes: 2

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. Votes: 2

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. Votes: 2

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. Votes: 2

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. Votes: 2

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. Votes: 2

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. Votes: 2

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. Votes: 2

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling. Votes: 2

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. Votes: 2

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. Votes: 2

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative. Votes: 2

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. Votes: 2

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. Votes: 2

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river. Votes: 2

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. Votes: 2

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. Votes: 2

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film. Votes: 2

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Votes: 2

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Votes: 2

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. Votes: 2

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. Votes: 2

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play. Votes: 2

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. Votes: 2

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. Votes: 2

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now. Votes: 2

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. Votes: 2

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. Votes: 2

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness. Votes: 2

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. Votes: 2

If you go back far enough and get a wider enough picture of history, we have let go of many things that follow a religious narrative. We don't burn witches anymore. Most people would consider that barbaric. We don't sacrifice human beings, which was a religious act practiced by numerous cultures on this planet. Votes: 2

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. Votes: 2

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures. Votes: 2

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on. Votes: 2

I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing. Votes: 2

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine. Votes: 2

I hear music as narrative. Votes: 0

My god is narrative filmmaking. Votes: 0

I tried to control the narrative. Votes: 0

You can reclaim your own narrative. Votes: 0

Specificity is the soul of narrative. Votes: 0

Change the narrative, change the laws. Votes: 0

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. Votes: 0

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative Votes: 0

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Votes: 0

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences. Votes: 0

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative. Votes: 0

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative. Votes: 0

We can change the narrative about Africa with content. Votes: 0

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences. Votes: 0

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative. Votes: 0

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. Votes: 0

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh. Votes: 0

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. Votes: 0

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up. Votes: 0

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction. Votes: 0

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Votes: 0

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories. Votes: 0

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface. Votes: 0

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. Votes: 0

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever. Votes: 0

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems. Votes: 0

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not. Votes: 0

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. Votes: 0

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety. Votes: 0

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. Votes: 0

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Votes: 0

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. Votes: 0

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. Votes: 0

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Votes: 0

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. Votes: 0

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. Votes: 0

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. Votes: 0

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. Votes: 0

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. Votes: 0

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. Votes: 0

Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph. Votes: 0

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word. Votes: 0

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. Votes: 0

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. Votes: 0

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go. Votes: 0

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films. Votes: 0

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it. Votes: 0

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. Votes: 0

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative. Votes: 0

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events Votes: 0

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. Votes: 0

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. Votes: 0

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. Votes: 0

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. Votes: 0

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. Votes: 0

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books. Votes: 0

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking Votes: 0

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. Votes: 0

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Votes: 0

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. Votes: 0

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. Votes: 0

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. Votes: 0

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. Votes: 0

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. Votes: 0

Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative. Votes: 0

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative. Votes: 0

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. Votes: 0

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative. Votes: 0

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. Votes: 0

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative. Votes: 0

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. Votes: 0

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. Votes: 0

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is. Votes: 0

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. Votes: 0

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people. Votes: 0

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. Votes: 0

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. Votes: 0

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. Votes: 0

There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. Votes: 0

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. Votes: 0

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. Votes: 0

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. Votes: 0

When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative. Votes: 0

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. Votes: 0

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... Votes: 0

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. Votes: 0

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important. Votes: 0

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. Votes: 0

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas. Votes: 0

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. Votes: 0

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos. Votes: 0

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change. Votes: 0

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. Votes: 0

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. Votes: 0

Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. Votes: 0

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. Votes: 0

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. Votes: 0

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. Votes: 0

No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. Votes: 0

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy. Votes: 0

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. Votes: 0

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post. Votes: 0

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. Votes: 0

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. Votes: 0

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. Votes: 0

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative. Votes: 0

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. Votes: 0

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper. Votes: 0

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. Votes: 0

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. Votes: 0

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible. Votes: 0

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next. Votes: 0

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way. Votes: 0

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative. Votes: 0

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience. Votes: 0

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. Votes: 0

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. Votes: 0

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content. Votes: 0

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre. Votes: 0

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. Votes: 0

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films. Votes: 0

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. Votes: 0

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences. Votes: 0

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms. Votes: 0

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. Votes: 0

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. Votes: 0

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative. Votes: 0

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. Votes: 0

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. Votes: 0

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. Votes: 0

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. Votes: 0

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit. Votes: 0

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. Votes: 0

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. Votes: 0

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Votes: 0

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them. Votes: 0

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. Votes: 0

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs. Votes: 0

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. Votes: 0

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. Votes: 0

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. Votes: 0

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". Votes: 0

History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another. Votes: 0

It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative. Votes: 0

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. Votes: 0

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. Votes: 0

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted. Votes: 0

I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. Votes: 0

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? Votes: 0

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live. Votes: 0

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. Votes: 0

Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it! Votes: 0

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. Votes: 0

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. Votes: 0

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. Votes: 0

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. Votes: 0

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. Votes: 0

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. Votes: 0

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. Votes: 0

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects. Votes: 0

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. Votes: 0

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. Votes: 0

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. Votes: 0

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Votes: 0

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. Votes: 0

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. Votes: 0

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies! Votes: 0

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. Votes: 0

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. Votes: 0

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. Votes: 0

Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television. Votes: 0

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. Votes: 0

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. Votes: 0

The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. Votes: 0

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies. Votes: 0

Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction. Votes: 0

I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways. Votes: 0

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. Votes: 0

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative. Votes: 0

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. Votes: 0

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form. Votes: 0

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning. Votes: 0

I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do. Votes: 0

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. Votes: 0

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense. Votes: 0

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. Votes: 0

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way. Votes: 0

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about. Votes: 0

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. Votes: 0

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs. Votes: 0

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative. Votes: 0

Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction. Votes: 0

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. Votes: 0

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative. Votes: 0

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative. Votes: 0

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books. Votes: 0

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock. Votes: 0

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion. Votes: 0

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things. Votes: 0

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture. Votes: 0

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die. Votes: 0

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. Votes: 0

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed. Votes: 0

Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning Votes: 0

Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse. Votes: 0

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation. Votes: 0

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others. Votes: 0

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative. Votes: 0

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question. Votes: 0

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. Votes: 0

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me. Votes: 0

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film. Votes: 0

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood. Votes: 0

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. Votes: 0

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length. Votes: 0

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. Votes: 0

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative. Votes: 0

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women. Votes: 0

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about. Votes: 0

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling). Votes: 0

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve. Votes: 0

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land Votes: 0

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information. Votes: 0

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor. Votes: 0

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters. Votes: 0

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion. Votes: 0

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy. Votes: 0

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. Votes: 0

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history. Votes: 0

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today. Votes: 0

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content. Votes: 0

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative. Votes: 0

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car. Votes: 0

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges. Votes: 0

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making. Votes: 0

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. Votes: 0

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. Votes: 0

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much. Votes: 0

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them. Votes: 0

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time. Votes: 0

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction "” there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. Votes: 0

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room. Votes: 0

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development. Votes: 0

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. Votes: 0

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance. Votes: 0

I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen. Votes: 0

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it. Votes: 0

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie. Votes: 0

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read. Votes: 0

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility. Votes: 0

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next? Votes: 0

By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000. Votes: 0

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil. Votes: 0

The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere. Votes: 0

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong. Votes: 0

I believe we were created for ecstasy. And redeemed for it, at considerable cost. Certain vagrant moments are, moreover, clues to the narrative structure and texture of things. Votes: 0

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family. Votes: 0

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: 0

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told. Votes: 0

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law. Votes: 0

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. Votes: 0

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches. Votes: 0

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled. Votes: 0

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear. Votes: 0

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work. Votes: 0

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Votes: 0

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. Votes: 0

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury. Votes: 0

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. Votes: 0

Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult. Votes: 0

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end. Votes: 0

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. Votes: 0

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: 0

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such. Votes: 0

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale. Votes: 0

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? Votes: 0

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself. Votes: 0

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. Votes: 0

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them. Votes: 0

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. Votes: 0

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy. Votes: 0

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back. Votes: 0

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative. Votes: 0

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin. Votes: 0

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again? Votes: 0

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence. Votes: 0

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again. Votes: 0

Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation. Votes: 0

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience. Votes: 0

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that. Votes: 0

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game. Votes: 0

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative. Votes: 0

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens. Votes: 0

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. Votes: 0

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not. Votes: 0

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything. Votes: 0

I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous. Votes: 0

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better. Votes: 0

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. Votes: 0

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. Votes: 0

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. Votes: 0

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions. Votes: 0

I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. Votes: 0

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you. Votes: 0

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on. Votes: 0

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. Votes: 0

Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me! Votes: 0

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative. Votes: 0

The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices! Votes: 0

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains. Votes: 0

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness. Votes: 0

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative. Votes: 0

As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness. Votes: 0

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. Votes: 0

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world. Votes: 0

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. Votes: 0

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. Votes: 0

Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under her own set of rules. Votes: 0

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative. Votes: 0

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. Votes: 0

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Votes: 0

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. Votes: 0

Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction? Votes: 0

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain. Votes: 0

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment. Votes: 0

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. Votes: 0

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: 0

The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights. Votes: 0

I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm. Votes: 0

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk. Votes: 0

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there. Votes: 0

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy. Votes: 0

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages. Votes: 0

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list. Votes: 0

But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special. Votes: 0

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella. Votes: 0

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera. Votes: 0

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader. Votes: 0

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. Votes: 0

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative. Votes: 0

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it. Votes: 0

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes. Votes: 0

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised. Votes: 0

If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form. Votes: 0

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story. Votes: 0

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about! Votes: 0

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable. Votes: 0

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings. Votes: 0

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control. Votes: 0

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals. Votes: 0

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. Votes: 0

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen Votes: 0

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work. Votes: 0

I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently. Votes: 0

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make. Votes: 0

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you. Votes: 0

I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to. Votes: 0

In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling - where the narrative originates and what happens to the content. Votes: 0

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing. Votes: 0

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all. Votes: 0

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time. Votes: 0

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story. Votes: 0

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? Votes: 0

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story. Votes: 0

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that. Votes: 0

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme. Votes: 0

Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to the designers and giving them helpful feedback about what they're doing. Votes: 0

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse. Votes: 0

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially. Votes: 0

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order. Votes: 0

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train. Votes: 0

It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way. Votes: 0

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. Votes: 0

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative. Votes: 0

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix. Votes: 0

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so. Votes: 0

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. Votes: 0

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic. Votes: 0

When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative. Votes: 0

I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to. Votes: 0

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. Votes: 0

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry. Votes: 0

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Votes: 0

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together. Votes: 0

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another. Votes: 0

I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested in the stories behind the photographs. I was more interested in narrative. Votes: 0

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other. Votes: 0

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative. Votes: 0

I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims. Votes: 0

There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives. Votes: 0

There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of Malcolm X, but the two men had very different motives in coming together. Votes: 0

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children. Votes: 0

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Votes: 0

As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome! Votes: 0

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted. Votes: 0

I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we." Votes: 0

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone. Votes: 0

In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.' Votes: 0

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation. Votes: 0

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this. Votes: 0

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. Votes: 0

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction. Votes: 0

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes. Votes: 0

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative.The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving. Votes: 0

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece. Votes: 0

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative. Votes: 0

I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline. Votes: 0

Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience. Votes: 0

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge. Votes: 0

I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camera is. I'm just going for the story. Votes: 0

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor. Votes: 0

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. Votes: 0

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that. Votes: 0

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration. Votes: 0

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in. Votes: 0

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step. Votes: 0

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world. Votes: 0

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step. Votes: 0

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader. Votes: 0