Quotes about narrative
narrative
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Djuna Barnes
narrative nonfiction labels
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. David Shields
narrative plot resolution
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
narrative allies honest
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.
narrative information different
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information. Alan Moore
narrative adhesive film
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Carter Burwell
narrative
I hear music as narrative. Ajay Naidu
narrative rock-n-roll tradition
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Bruce Springsteen
narrative
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. A. S. Byatt
narrative captains boat
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. Anne-Marie Slaughter
narrative faults done
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.
narrative want ends
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. Douglas Rushkoff
narrative-structure vision way
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. Don DeLillo
narrative wonder enjoy
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. Donald Glover
narrative diaries philosopher
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. Clive James
narrative-structure miracle chocolate
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack. Anthony Doerr
narrative triumph events
Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph. Andrew Solomon
narrative stories untrue
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. Ambrose Bierce
narrative-structure guy intellectual
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music. Anthony Braxton
narrative shows
My shows are not narratives. Brian Eno
narrative miraculous has-beens
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. C. S. Lewis
narrative realized sequence shower strong
At the same time, I realized a very strong contemporary narrative was needed. Without that, the movie would end with the shower sequence in Psycho. Joseph Stefano
narrative different stories
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. David Antin
narrative
We think those may be the narrative ones,
narrative behind-you bunch
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. Nick Hornby
narrative kind week
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.
narrative tropes audience
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. Paul Scheuring
narrative objects
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. Neil MacGregor
narrative conveying objects
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
narratives
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. Matthew Tobin Anderson
narrative information tension
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information, Ian Mcewan
narrative information flow
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
narrative imagine easy
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. Christopher Eccleston