361 Narrative Quotes for You to Enjoy

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books. Kevin Barry

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Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity. Kevin Reilly

Humanity Our Wired Narrative Storytelling

The resilience of narrative storytelling and people's love affair with television is impressive. Kevin Reilly

Love People Television Narrative Affair Impressive Love Affair Storytelling Resilience

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. Kevin Wilson

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If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives. Kumail Nanjiani

You Narrative Narratives Very Short Sketch

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative? Larry Wilmore

Control Think Voice Narrative Gets Biggest Biggest Thing Who Whose Thing

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. Laura Hillenbrand

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There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it. Lauren Ashley Carter

Joy Adding Dramatic Horror Taking Narrative Then Certain Element

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint. Lauren Mayberry

To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it. Lee Gutkind

Research Tell Responsible Must Reconstruct Rather More Scenes Fact Writers Simply Know Learn Narrative Nonfiction Traditional Conduct Than In Fact Stories Cannot Requires Show Vigorous

I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models. Lena Waithe

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There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America. Leslie Jamison

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When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it. Liz Murray

You Own Charge Gives Take Narrative Handle Your

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness. Lois Lowry

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Referring to ISIL as a destructive religious cult rather than a legitimate theo-political 'radical Islamic' group is not just more accurate, it also exposes ISIL's corrupt religious narrative. Malcolm Nance

Radical Group Destructive Corrupt Religious Rather More Also Islamic Narrative Cult Referring Than Accurate Just Legitimate

I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters. Malorie Blackman

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point. Marco Brambilla

Work Experience Beginning Out Rather Having Point Entry Attention Most Narrative End Than Essential Conventional Your Flow Set

The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first 'Spiderman' game as well as 'Fantastic Four,' and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative. Margaret Stohl

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Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change. Maria Semple

Change Complexity Characters Demand Narrative Scope Certain Novels Necessary

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Marilyn Hacker

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The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.' Mark Bradford

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world. Mark Leyner

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I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm. Mark Romanek

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