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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
— Lucy Grealy
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
— Haruki Murakami
Millions of characters, each with their own epic narratives singing it's hard to be an angel until you've been a demon.
— Kate Tempest
Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.
— Massimiliano Gioni
We are wired to move through our lives chasing and rehearsing narratives that will promise to bring the world back into balance.
— Timothy Keller
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
— Ethan Zuckerman
Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.
— Sharon Salzberg
By all means, avoid words - threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.
— Soseki Natsume
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules.
— Cass Sunstein
My shows are not narratives.
— Brian Eno
The exercise was meant to illustrate the powerful instinct people have for finding causes for any effect, and also for creating narratives. "The
— Michael Lewis
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
— James K.A. Smith
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.
— Michael Cunningham
Trauma narratives are hallmarked by fragmentation, broken chronology, changing perspectives, shifts in tone, and absented moments. I
— Adam Johnson
Eisman was quick to see narratives, he explained the world in stories, and this was one of the stories he used to explain himself. The
— Michael Lewis
I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
— Viola Davis
The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness.
— Brene Brown
James Smith argues that liturgies are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.
— James K.A. Smith
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.
— Linda Lappin
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
— Tullian Tchividjian
If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.
— Kate Zambreno
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings
— Gordon D. Fee
The greatest Church Fathers, for instance, took it for granted that the creation narratives of Genesis could not be treated literally,
— David Bentley Hart
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
— Joseph Campbell
I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
— Darin Strauss
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
— Kumail Nanjiani
Empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).
— Mikkel Wallentin
Stories gave shape to Achimwene's life. Narratives gave a series of random events meaning. And so he shaped this, too, as a story.
— Lavie Tidhar
Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.
— Robert C. Harvey
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
— David Antin
Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.
— Barry Siegel
We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.
— Niall Ferguson
A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
— Harlan Coben
The necessity of the universal and the particular is a central aspect of liberal education, and is likewise joined in the great narratives of history.
— Ellis Washington
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
— Hanna Rosin
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
— Caroline Knapp
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
— Keith Carter
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
— Jonathan Lethem
We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
— Dinaw Mengestu
To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
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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
All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
— Rebecca Makkai
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
— Norman Macleod
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
— Jonas Gahr Store
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.
— Danielle Ganek
It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power
— Neil Postman
Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.
— Lauren Groff
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
— David Hare
And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.
— Armineonila M.
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
— Catherynne M Valente
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.
— Joseph O'Neill
Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.
— David Mitchell
Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions - which become your life.
— Bryant McGill
