Quotes about narrative
narrative
I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous. Jim Crace
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
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 attention entering
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. Terry Tempest Williams
narrative metaphor myth
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Joseph Campbell
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
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Djuna Barnes
narrative plot resolution
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative. David Shields
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
I hear music as narrative. Ajay Naidu
narrative obsessive people stop
Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. Rita Ora
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 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-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 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 height depth
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Thomas Carlyle
narrative share born
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. Steven Erikson
narrative conclusion reader
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. Rick Atkinson
narrative stories one-liner
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. Tim Vine
narrative film linear
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. Todd Haynes
narrative purpose ambiguity
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. Scott Turow
narrative way events
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. Steven Pinker
narrative form
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. Sidney Sheldon
narrative
I tried to control the narrative. Lance Armstrong
narrative-structure would-be ultimate
The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. Johnny Depp
narrative way firsts
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage. Nicholson Baker
narrative storyteller imposing
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. Michael Kimmelman