Quotes about narrative
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. Nick Hornby
narrative way rooms
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? Jeff Greenfield
narrative cold reactions
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. Jhumpa Lahiri
narrative stories literature
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Rachel Weisz
narrative form
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. Sidney Sheldon
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 storyteller imposing
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. Michael Kimmelman
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 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 documentaries inspired
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking. Griffin Dunne
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
narrative hollywood cinema
There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. Christine Vachon
narrative storytelling attributes
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. Christina Baldwin
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 sooner-or-later
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us. John Scalzi
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 firsts tools
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. James McBride
narrative lines thin-air
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. Joan Didion
narrative world subjects
There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects. John Madden
narrative stories painting
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. Peter Greenaway
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 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 metaphor myth
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Joseph Campbell
narrative conclusion reader
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. Rick Atkinson
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 posts reporters
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post. Kara Swisher
narrative eloquence grounded
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Ralph Waldo Emerson
narrative film linear
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative. Todd Haynes