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Narrative Quotes

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

Great Try Write Always Narrative

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Will Out Narrative Conclusions Own

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Sometimes Narrative Little Closer

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

Attention Through Narrative Idea

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Writing Problem Narrative Shape How

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

Time Doors Narrative Writer Atomic

There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways.

Path Everyone Winds Narrative Ways

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

George Armstrong Custer

Purpose Possible Narrative Truthful

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

Darren Aronofsky

God Filmmaking Narrative Make Had

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

Rabih Alameddine

I Am Out Narrative English Text Am

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Information Flow Narrative Charge

The thematically related 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Brokeback Mountain' reinforced the narrative that gays like Mr. Shepard are regularly isolated for cruel and unusual attacks.

Andrew Breitbart

Mountain Cry Narrative Cruel Unusual

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

People Book Create Narrative Really

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

Music Art Literature More Narrative

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

Africa Narrative Because Colonialism

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Bruce Springsteen

Tradition Storytelling Narrative Like

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

Penelope Lively

Book Story View Structure Narrative

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

Richard Linklater

Life Character Story Narrative Plot

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Best Talking Up Narrative Big Get

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

Janet Evanovich

Long Down Want Narrative Readers

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

Best Three Narrative Combination

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Time Human Same Narrative Just One

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

Identity Story Movement Narrative

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Haruki Murakami

Time Write Point Narrative Books

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