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Narrative Writing Quotes & Sayings

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Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative. — Michelle Tea

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative. — Vikram Chandra

These people looking for efficiencies have no understanding that governments have to do things you can't put a dollar on — Malcolm Fraser

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing. — Henriette Anne Klauser

you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said. — Colum McCann

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their artist, or a Puffy move. — Laurieann Gibson

Story should be a descent
the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. — Chuck Wendig

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative? — Matthea Harvey

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives. — Kate Zambreno

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct ... — Joel Achenbach

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument — Andrew Pettegree

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it. — Walter Isaacson

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit. — Don Roff

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. — Elmore Leonard

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. — Gore Vidal

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative. — Peter Straub

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. — Stephen Covey

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one. — Billy Corgan

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety. — John Dufresne

An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read! — Maggie Reese

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

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

When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things. — Vin Diesel

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too. — Alicia Silverstone

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

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

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job. — Dennis Lehane

That sums up why it's crazy to meet Paul McCartney because he's the type of n - - that needs that. — Earl Sweatshirt

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. — William Shenstone

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling). — Christopher Hitchens

Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up. — Michael Marshall Smith

As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile. — Joyce Meyer

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