Quotes by Narrative Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. Caroline Knapp black-and-white narrative culture As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it. Carolyn Heilbrun narrative destiny long Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Carter Burwell adhesive narrative film I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative. Cate Blanchett heroines my-own narrative There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits. Catherine Wilson progress benefits narrative …everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all. Catherynne M. Valente narrative alive stories When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings. Chantal Joffe magazines narrative thinking I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own. Chath Piersath narrative people thinking Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life. Chris Abani narrative book fiction It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke. Chris Hayes narrative political tvs 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 attributes storytelling narrative I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives. Christine Vachon narrative new-york people There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. Christine Vachon hollywood narrative cinema I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. Christopher Eccleston narrative imagine easy It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative. Clara Jeffery narrative kind facts Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood. Claudia Rankine narrative pieces art Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. Clive James philosopher narrative diaries Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction. Colleen O'Connor narrative block writing Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content. Cornel West birth narrative white I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. Danai Gurira literal narrative people «1234567891011»