Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Crace

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Neil MacGregor

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

Neil MacGregor

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Paul Scheuring

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

Terry Tempest Williams

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

Joseph Campbell

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Djuna Barnes

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

David Shields

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.

Anthony Marra

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

Candice Millard

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Laura Hillenbrand

My work was entirely nonfiction.

Akhil Sharma

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Chris Abani

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Cory Monteith

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Andy Richter

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Two Chainz

You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

Wayne Dyer

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

William Glasser

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Wendell Berry

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Linda McCartney

In the years since I first met Paul Ive had all sorts of labels stuck on me. Now the new label is businesswomen. Sure I have this business. But what I am, what I am myself, is a photographer.

Mickey Gilley

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

John C. Maxwell

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

John Brunner

I'm myself, not a label.

Nikki Haley

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.