My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.
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.
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
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.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.
I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
