Narrative Quotes - Page 10

Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about various aspects of Aschenbach's life and work. But many of them don't appreciate the second level of irony, the one exemplified in setting this narrative voice alongside the more sympathetic one, and inviting us to choose.

We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer so sympathetic that his language appears to be Aschenbach's own, the other of which is superficially celebratory (except at the moment of moralistic condemnation) but undercuts Aschenbach by means of an ironic detachment.

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

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

If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.