Narrative Quotes
It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.
I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.
Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.
I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.
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.
The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere.
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.
I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.
A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.
Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to the designers and giving them helpful feedback about what they're doing.
They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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.
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.
I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.
By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.
If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.
A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument