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Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative. — Gao Xingjian

'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks. — Dave Morris

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth

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

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important. — Charlize Theron

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

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. — A.S. Byatt

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 think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture. — Rachel Cusk

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies. — Elena Ferrante

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries Van Noten

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor. — Kevin Rudd

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. — Cheryl Strayed

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. — Nicholas Kristof

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

Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention. — Neil Postman

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. — Samantha Harvey

She thought, instead, with longing of more books - of buying books - of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release. — Peter Straub

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

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor

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

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. — Ray McKinnon

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

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

As for the heart
It needs a beginning
The narrative
Burden of events — Fady Joudah

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

There's a spiritual connection between flame and narrative. — Doug Dorst

The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story. — Pat Conroy

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

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative. — Romola Garai

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

It's very rare for the Internet to have a successful narrative show like 'MyMusic.' It's really a case study for what is the future of the sitcom. — Benny Fine

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

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. — Matt Stone

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

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

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

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury. — James Gray

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

There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life. — Jodi Picoult

To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. — L.R.W. Lee

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative. — Joan Didion

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

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. — Jerry Saltz

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

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. — Andre Gide

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

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length. — Jim Crace

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. — Lucas Neff

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

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

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

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous. — Jim Crace

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

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor