Quotes about Narrative

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There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand n — Terry Eagleton, The Meaning of Life
All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is al — Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound trut — Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. Wha — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can rep — Curtis Tyrone Jones
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . ( — J.R.R. Tolkien
...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on a — Javier Marías
If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time. — Kamand Kojouri
The stars are brilliant at this time of night and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break for darlin — Charlotte Eriksson
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman — W.H. Auden
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing a — Gertrude Stein, Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. I — Don DeLillo
The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective. — Sōseki Natsume, The Three-Cornered World
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. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular scree — Brian Koppelman
Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us en — Leah C. Fowler
A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument — Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation