Top 1200 Narrative Structure Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

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

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

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

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.

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

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

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

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.

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

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

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they are organized anew as part of the structure of consciousness. What makes them memories is that they become part of that structure and thus form part of the sense of self; my sense of self derives from a certainty that my experiences refer back to me, the individual who is having them. Hence the sense of the past, of history, of memory, is in part the creation of the self.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

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

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

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

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

Women often get ignored from main narrative, especially in films.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

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

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

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

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.