Top Narrative Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Narrative quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jack Zipes
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.
- Jack Zipes
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Image of John Scalzi
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
- John Scalzi
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Image of Neil MacGregor
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
- Neil MacGregor
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Image of Robert Neelly Bellah
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.
- Robert Neelly Bellah
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Image of Emmanuel Lubezki
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.
- Emmanuel Lubezki
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Image of Robert Coover
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
- Robert Coover
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Image of Rick Atkinson
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
- Rick Atkinson
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Image of Gregory Crewdson
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.
- Gregory Crewdson
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Image of Bruno Dumont
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.
- Bruno Dumont
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Image of Todd Haynes
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
- Todd Haynes
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Image of George Lakoff
One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.
- George Lakoff
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Image of James K. A. Smith
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
- James K. A. Smith
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Image of Michael Kimmelman
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
- Michael Kimmelman
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Image of Kara Swisher
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.
- Kara Swisher
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Image of Mark Duplass
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.
- Mark Duplass
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Image of Kehinde Wiley
When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.
- Kehinde Wiley
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Image of Paul Scheuring
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.
- Paul Scheuring
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Image of Mo Abudu
We can change the narrative about Africa with content.
- Mo Abudu
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Image of Ragnar Kjartansson
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.
- Ragnar Kjartansson
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Image of Saschka Unseld
I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see it for the first time, and then I spend time with it, discover details and things I haven't seen, and then I have the moment when I decide to leave it.
- Saschka Unseld
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Image of Clara Jeffery
It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.
- Clara Jeffery
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Image of Francoise Mouly
There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.
- Francoise Mouly
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Image of N.D. Wilson
Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
- N.D. Wilson
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Image of Joseph Campbell
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
- Joseph Campbell
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Image of A. S. Byatt
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.
- A. S. Byatt
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Image of Anne-Marie Slaughter
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Image of Paula Broadwell
You can reclaim your own narrative.
- Paula Broadwell
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Image of Steven Erikson
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.
- Steven Erikson
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Image of Matthea Harvey
I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.
- Matthea Harvey
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Image of Matthea Harvey
I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.
- Matthea Harvey
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Darren Aronofsky
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
- Darren Aronofsky
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Image of Lance Armstrong
I tried to control the narrative.
- Lance Armstrong
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Image of David Salle
To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.
- David Salle
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Image of Nick Hornby
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
- Nick Hornby
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Image of Nick Hornby
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.
- Nick Hornby
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Image of Christina Baldwin
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
- Christina Baldwin
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Image of C. S. Lewis
I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Guy Maddin
The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.
- Guy Maddin
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Image of Nicholson Baker
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.
- Nicholson Baker
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Image of Ian Mcewan
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
- Ian Mcewan
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Image of Djuna Barnes
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
- Djuna Barnes
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