Narrative Quotes

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

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

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

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.

Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].

We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

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

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

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.

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.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

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

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

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

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

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

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.