Quotes by Narrative I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. E. L. Doctorow distinction narrative fiction There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. E. L. Doctorow fiction-and-nonfiction narrative fiction I loved the show Lost, in part because the writers were so nimble in how they would take things from previous episodes, that probably weren't created with any intent towards a larger narrative, and they would get woven into narratives in a really elegant and exciting way. Ed Helms narrative woven way Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton narrative moments fiction We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Edgar Allan Poe narrative half two The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. Edward Norton documentaries narrative kind The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. Edward Hirsch narrative attention character Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. Edward Gibbon naked narrative history What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list. Edward Tufte bullets narrative goal The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms. Elizabeth Bowen narrative law mean If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. Elmore Leonard narrative writing may I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment. Elmore Leonard jazz narrative writing The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical. Emmanuel Lubezki narrative film language The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded. Erica Jong cameras narrative photography People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden. Errol Morris narrative people thinking Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. Eugenio Montale proust narrative art There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives. Francoise Mouly comic visuals narrative You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is. Frank Spotnitz narrative term answers Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative. Fred Ritchin narrative development sound Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative. Fred Ritchin employment narrative media «1234567891011»