Narrative Quotes
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Narrative Quotes & Sayings
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I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.
— Garth Greenwell
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
— Haruki Murakami
My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop.
— Jodi Picoult
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
— Roger Zelazny
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.
— Elizabeth McCracken
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
— Robert Fisk
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
— Cheryl Strayed
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
— Garry Winogrand
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
He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.
— Hanif Kureishi
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
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
— W.S. Gilbert
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
With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.
— Stuart Rojstaczer
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
— Darin Strauss
HAS IT NEVER STRUCK YOU THAT THE CONCEPT OF A WRITTEN NARRATIVE IS SOMEWHAT STRANGE? said Death.
— Terry Pratchett
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
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
— Isabella Rossellini
When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
— Barbara Conelli
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 best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
— Shonda Rhimes
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
— Jean Piaget
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
— Kenneth R. Miller
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
Job 28 is a magnificent poem that engages the modern technology narrative head-on.
— Timothy J. Keller
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
The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.
— Mason Cooley
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
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.
— Frank Spotnitz
A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.
— Henry Johnson Jr
So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.
— Sylvia Plath
And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative.
— Camilla Lackberg
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
— John Gregory Dunne
People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.
— Chester Elijah Branch
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
— George Pelecanos
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
— Sidney Sheldon
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
— James McBride
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
— Griffin Dunne
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
History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.
— Thomas C. Foster
The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such
— Georges Bataille
Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.
— Stacy Schiff
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
— Neil MacGregor
Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.
— Alister E. McGrath
God is the STRUCTURE of Life, not the Narrative.
— Hertzan Chimera
To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
— John Scalzi
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
— Darren Aronofsky
narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.
— H. Porter Abbott
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
— James K.A. Smith
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
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.
— Leah Hager Cohen
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
— Stephen Malkmus
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
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.
— James Gunn
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
— Haruki Murakami
