Quotes of: Narratives Keyword

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

Robert Creeley

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

Stephen Malkmus

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Mo Ibrahim

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Robert Wilson

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

Darren Aronofsky

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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

Jeff Bezos

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

Barbara Kopple

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

Janet Evanovich

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

William Zinsser

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

James McBride

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.

V. S. Naipaul

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

James Gray

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Paul Ricoeur

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Thomas Carlyle

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Kenneth R. Miller

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

David Miliband