Narrative Quotes - Page 3

• 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

  Johann Most

  Book, Want, Agnostic

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• National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Past, Political, Events

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• The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

  Robert Creeley

  Patterns, Want, Ends

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• Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

  Griffin Dunne

  Movie, Inspiring, Documentaries

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• I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

  Carmen Laforet

  Writing, Thread

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• 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

  Together, Movement, Literature

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• 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

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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• The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

  Patrick Marber

  Writing, Character, Play

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

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

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• Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

  John Drinkwater

  Drama, Epic, Long

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

  Tobias Wolff

  Time, Past, People

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• What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

  Edward Tufte

  Goal, Bullets, Lists

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• Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Proust, Great Work

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• Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

  Howard Gardner

  Important, Use, Storytelling

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• Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

  Carter Burwell

  Adhesive, Film, Subliminal

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• Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

  Helen Dunmore

  Strong, Children, Book

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• When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Suicide, Boys, Narrative Voice

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• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Drama, Criticism, Etc

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• The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Different, Caves

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• I hear music as narrative.

  Ajay Naidu

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• I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Space, Long

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• I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Fiction, Able

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• The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Journey, June, Mexico

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.11

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• First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

  James McBride

  Firsts, Tools, Persons

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• I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Imagine, Easy, Instinct

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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