Narrative Quotes

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

I hear music as narrative.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

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

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

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

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.