Narrative Quotes
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I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
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There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
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The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
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We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
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When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.
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No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.
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As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
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The imagery is getting a little more enigmatic. I'd like to think that it's getting a little more evocative without being more narrative.
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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.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
