Narrative Quotes

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.' Robin Marantz Henig
Life Time People Events Remember Other Teens More Construct Tend Narrative Bump Than Any Researchers Twenties Found
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow. Rodney Crowell
Will Sense Say Ability Had Songs Sort Narrative Always Inflated Maybe Sequence Flow
Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs. Rodney Crowell
Time You Writing Long Long Time Dedication Believe Out Paragraphs Finish Songs Songwriting Long Time Ago Takes Know Make Learned Stick Narrative Real Very Craft Just Different Endurance Sustaining Sentences Pull
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative. Rodney Crowell
Time You Mistake Writing Old Presume Would Would-Be Write Almost Almost All Come Know Narrative Handbook Autobiographical Fiction Place Using Extend Starting
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. Ron Fournier
Character Nation Recurring Narrative American
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity. Russell Smith
Alone Great Crime Paperback Punishment Immersed Statistics Fact Instantly Miss Days Look Narrative Up Human Room Lunacy
I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while. Ruth Rendell
Myself Writing Speak Will Few Nothing Down Plot Tell Details Small Never Written Written Down Head Make Narrative Just Story While Notes Plan Much
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it. Ruth Ware
Time Own Every Changes Every Time Our Narrative Center
My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it at the time, but that's what really built me up. Sal Khan
Time Me Strong Some Mentors Narrative Built Up Personal Realize Really Lucky Early Career
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past. Samantha Harvey
Alone Man Long Lost Past Distance Silences About Unsettling Most Without Narrative His Middle Which Grip Staring Things Monologue
With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. Samantha Harvey
Song Tricks Tried Construct Narrative Traditional Very
It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way. Sarah Gadon
Work Love Problems Will Men Girl Fall Way Solve Sunny Read Narrative Often Romantic Choose Who
I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It's all about scopophilia. Sarah Gadon
Cinema Sometimes Example Reading Pleasure Visual Laura About For Example Look Female Narrative Psychological Process Which Scripts Them Theory Image Apply
I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying. Sarah Koenig
Life Time Ending Somehow Ten My Time Ten Years Learned Narrative How Been Years Ambiguous American Reporter Craft Anything American Life Radio Even Satisfying
There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways. Sarah McBride
Path Everyone Ways One-Size-Fits-All Winds Narrative Different Different Ways
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. Scott Turow
Complexity Purpose Narrative Ambiguity Us Present
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative. Seanan McGuire
Work You Background Cities Running Folklore Some Magic Having Animation Tale Major Fairies Fairy Fairy Tale Around Narrative Got Lot Very Modern Done Which Modern-Day Urban Fantasy Creatures Pulling
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way. Selah Louise Marley
Art Creative Example Own Control Way Kind See Give Something My Own Like For Example Halfway Narrative Go Up Very Modeling Personal Any Owning Just Depends Either Really Certain Certain Way Creative Control Hard
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience. Shane Black
Together Slow Build Action Other Plot Threads Follow See Slowly Like Narrative Audience Coming Traditions Very Gradual Any Rewarding Movie Subtlety Literature Separate Should Means Action Movie Bringing
I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. Shane Carruth
Truth Speak Lesson Believe Factual Narrative Trying Teach Works
There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down. Shane Carruth
You Value Looking Down Nutritional Has-Been Hopefully Some Attention Stuff Piece Narrative Passing Came Been Exist Up Author Get Hold Stories Literature While Storytelling Working Even Film Why Things
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film. Shane Carruth
You Problems Will Thinking Books Solve Risk More Put Sort Narrative Ready Go Blocks End Up Than Order Little Movies Storytelling Notion Let Go Film Right Watch
Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative. Shawn Amos
Wonderful Values Those Sort Narrative Subject Brands Stories Manifestation Should Your Products Company
The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to MIT to get your calling card. Or you go to Harvard and then you drop out and then you've made it. Shiva Ayyadurai
You Made Drop Innovators Harvard Out Must Spirit Drop-Out Like Calling Calling Card Narrative Still MIT Go However Exists America Get Goes Which Then Your Card
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative. Simon Schama
History Dangerous Fine Narrative Up Option Brave Stops Door Sensitivity Teachers Grown Grown-Up Need Honest Soft
Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality. Stephen Malkmus
Police Whatever Others Followed Brutality Narrative Than Closer Story Reason Larger Gray
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