Narrative Quotes - Page 6

• Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Powerful, Faithful, Vision

  "Suzanne Collins Talks About the Hunger Games Movie" by Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. March 1, 2012.

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• This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

  Christina Baldwin

  Storytelling, Attributes, Storyteller

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.11, New World Library

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• Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Ironic, Nostalgia

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• Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

  David Shields

  Plot, Resolution, Driven

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto”, p.128, Penguin UK

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• The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Essence, Giving, Tasks

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• Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Art, Color, Way

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• The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Our World, Scripture, Changing The World

  Stanley Hauerwas (1991). “A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic”, p.68, University of Notre Dame Pess

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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.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.

  James Welling

  Running, Cameras, Able

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• To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Media, People, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

  Rachel Holmes

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anything that exists on a time basis - that has a beginning, middle, and end, because you start watching it and then you're in the middle of watching it and then it ends - anything linear, for me, is narrative.

  Saschka Unseld

  Beginning Middle And End, Ends, Linear

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's not the way it works. The story doesn't want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you're doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that's what happens.

  George Saunders

  Anxiety, Relax, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.

  Melissa Febos

  Long, Our Lives, Series

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

  Margaret Atwood

  Going Away, Humans, Built

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview With Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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• Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

  James Carroll

  Memories, Stories, Definitions

  James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

  Julio Olalla

  Loving Life, Goal, Arise

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• Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

  James K. A. Smith

  Myth, Susceptible

  James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.68, Baker Academic

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• However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

  Edward Zwick

  Philosophical, Stories, Agendas

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• This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

  Samuel Johnson

  History, Misery

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.352

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• All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

  Lucy Grealy

  Hopeful, Confusing, World

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• I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Choosing When To Go". www.lankaweb.com. December 12, 2016.

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• Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.

  Chris Lehane

  Powerful, Father, Intelligent

  "Romney's new foe: Batman's 'Bane'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. July 16, 2012.

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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