Quotes about narrative
narratives
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.
narrative
Djuna Barnes I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
narrative nonfiction labels
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.
narrative plot resolution
David Shields Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
narrative allies honest
David Shields 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
Ajay Naidu I hear music as narrative.
narrative shows
Brian Eno My shows are not narratives.
narrative point sink teeth
At that point I had a real 30-year narrative to sink my teeth into.
narrative obsessive people stop
Rita Ora Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.
narrative wonder enjoy
Donald Glover 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.
narrative diaries philosopher
Clive James Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.
narrative want ends
Douglas Rushkoff A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.
narrative-structure vision way
Don DeLillo 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.
narrative-structure miracle chocolate
Anthony Doerr 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.
narrative triumph events
Andrew Solomon Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.
narrative different stories
David Antin Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
narrative stories untrue
Ambrose Bierce STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
narrative captains boat
Anne-Marie Slaughter We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
narrative faults done
Anne-Marie Slaughter 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-structure guy intellectual
Anthony Braxton 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.
narrative height depth
Thomas Carlyle Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
narrative share born
Steven Erikson 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.
narrative conclusion reader
Rick Atkinson If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
narrative stories one-liner
Tim Vine 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.
narrative film linear
Todd Haynes Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
narrative purpose ambiguity
Scott Turow The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
narrative way events
Steven Pinker 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.
narrative stories literature
Rachel Weisz I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
narrative form
Sidney Sheldon I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
narrative
Lance Armstrong I tried to control the narrative.
narrative-structure would-be ultimate
Johnny Depp The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.
narrative sooner-or-later
John Scalzi Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.