Narrative Quotes - Page 9

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

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

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience.

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).