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My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop.
— Jodi Picoult
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
— Walter Kirn
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
— Samuel Johnson
Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.
— Massimiliano Gioni
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
— Michael Graves
I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
— Elena Ferrante
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
— Cheryl Strayed
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
With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
— Samantha Harvey
Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.
— Henriette Anne Klauser
I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
— Viola Davis
He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.
— Hanif Kureishi
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
— Madeleine L'Engle
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
— Bruce Feiler
The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.
— Neville Weston
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
![A Narrative Quotes By Colleen O'Connor: Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/a-narrative-quotes-by-colleen-oconnor-1066870.jpg "A Narrative Quotes By Colleen O'Connor: Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it")
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
— Colleen O'Connor
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
— Shane Carruth
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
— Ambrose Bierce
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!
— Cornel West
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
— Stanley Kubrick
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
— Anton Chekhov
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
— Zadie Smith
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
— William Cowper
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
— Robert Morgan
I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.
— Jon Stewart
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
— Graydon Carter
It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
— Damon Galgut
Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.
— Andrew Solomon
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??
— Ryan North
Without stories we end up with stereotypes a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR. — Eugene H. Peterson
History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
— J.R. Moehringer
Enough anecdotes make a pattern.
— George F. Will
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
A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.
— Henry Johnson Jr
Job 28 is a magnificent poem that engages the modern technology narrative head-on.
— Timothy J. Keller
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
— Jeanette Winterson
Our Higher Self is a narrative of hope.
— H. L. Balcomb
The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] — R. Alan Woods
A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
— Darin Strauss
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
— James K.A. Smith
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
— Jonathan Coe
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath
Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
— Scott Bradfield
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
— John Gregory Dunne
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
— James McBride
An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
— Maggie Reese
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
— Barbara Kruger
Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.
— Michel-Rolph Trouillot
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
— William Shenstone
If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart.
— Jen Hatmaker
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
— Bradford Cox
Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.
— Stacy Schiff
A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
— John Dufresne
History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
— Hilary Mantel
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning
— Arlene Goldbard
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
— V.S. Naipaul
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
— Aminatta Forna
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
— Jean Piaget
The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.
— Mark Bernstein
HAS IT NEVER STRUCK YOU THAT THE CONCEPT OF A WRITTEN NARRATIVE IS SOMEWHAT STRANGE? said Death.
— Terry Pratchett
I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.
— David S.Goyer
What happened to-day, a narrative
— Gertrude Stein
