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Narrative Quotes

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread Picture Quote #1

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid Picture Quote #1

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to Picture Quote #1

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action Picture Quote #1

Americans don’t understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They’re extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else Picture Quote #1

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made Picture Quote #1

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More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral Picture Quote #1

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative Picture Quote #1

I’ve always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it’s an unfolding of a story Picture Quote #1

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That’s the nature of genre Picture Quote #1

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family Picture Quote #1

I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That’s my favorite thing Picture Quote #1

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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative Picture Quote #1

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time Picture Quote #1

The only reason investors haven’t run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed Picture Quote #1

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you’ve actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed Picture Quote #1

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself Picture Quote #1

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? Picture Quote #1

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There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own Picture Quote #1

Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung Picture Quote #1

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience Picture Quote #1

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams Picture Quote #1

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing Picture Quote #1

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead Picture Quote #1

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There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes? Picture Quote #1

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images Picture Quote #1

I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what’s going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing Picture Quote #1

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show Picture Quote #1

... what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading Picture Quote #1

I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches Picture Quote #1

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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread (Narrative Quotes) Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid (Narrative Quotes) True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to (Narrative Quotes) The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action (Narrative Quotes) Americans don’t understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They’re extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else (Narrative Quotes) I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made (Narrative Quotes) More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral (Narrative Quotes) Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative (Narrative Quotes) I’ve always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it’s an unfolding of a story (Narrative Quotes) Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That’s the nature of genre (Narrative Quotes) Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family (Narrative Quotes) I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That’s my favorite thing (Narrative Quotes) Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative (Narrative Quotes) My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time (Narrative Quotes) The only reason investors haven’t run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed (Narrative Quotes) We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you’ve actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed (Narrative Quotes) Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself (Narrative Quotes) As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? (Narrative Quotes) There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own (Narrative Quotes) Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung (Narrative Quotes) We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience (Narrative Quotes) This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams (Narrative Quotes) I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing (Narrative Quotes) Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead (Narrative Quotes) There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes? (Narrative Quotes) We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images (Narrative Quotes) I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what’s going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing (Narrative Quotes) I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show (Narrative Quotes) ... what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading (Narrative Quotes) I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches (Narrative Quotes)

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