Quotes by Narrative I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. James Ellroy digital narrative world Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation. James K. A. Smith susceptible myth narrative First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. James McBride narrative tools firsts What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time. James W. Loewen narrative stuff littles There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it. James Welling cameras narrative running Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves. Jane Smiley narrative dark firsts I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. Janet Evanovich narrative want long I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy. Jason Gann narrative different want The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as I've gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I'm telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning? Jason Segel narrative choices stories The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. Jeanette Winterson narrative dark lying Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead. Jeanette Winterson narrative way past In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? Jeff Greenfield narrative way rooms The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. Jeff Bezos narrative book people You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. Jeff Bezos narrative stories world If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh. Jenny Saville narrative flesh want When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible. Jeremy Bolt narrative simple trying In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. Jerry Saltz camouflage narrative art The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. Jhumpa Lahiri chemical-reactions cold narrative I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative. Jill Soloway flashback narrative people We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images. Joan Didion thin-air narrative lines «345678910111213»
