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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

Theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives. — Neil Postman

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives. — Massimiliano Gioni

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag

We are wired to move through our lives chasing and rehearsing narratives that will promise to bring the world back into balance. — Timothy Keller

Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century. — Stewart Brand

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

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives. — Kiki Smith

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy. — Nathan Lowell

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 think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives. — Lucy Walker

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. — Michael Cunningham

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. — Ron Fournier

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

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on. — Arthur Smith

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 truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. — Nick Hornby

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

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. — Danai Gurira

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

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite. — Phil Klay

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. — Mark Twain

As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real. — Ian MacKaye

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books. — Jim Crace

Conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self. — Kathryn Schulz

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives. — Jackson Katz

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

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize. — Dana Schutz

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David

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

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us. — Viola Davis

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. — Ali 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

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

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker. — John Cusack

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

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence. — Wes Craven

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives. — Guy Maddin

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare

Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories. — Carmine Gallo

And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable. — Armineonila M.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. — Julio Olalla

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

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences. — David Mitchell

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes

Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions - which become your life. — Bryant McGill

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

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes

A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. — Catherynne M Valente

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered. — Jane Alison