Narrative Quotes - Page 30

• The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

  Adam Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, Stories

  "The Call For Collaboration" by Adam Johnson, therumpus.net. March 3, 2009.

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• Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.

  Michael Horton

  Bible, Christian, Expectations

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• The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

  Robert Morgan

  Reading, Writing, Decision

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

  Vikram Chandra

  Writing, Relief, Fiction

  Vikram Chandra (2013). “Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

  Carol Shields

  Stars, Thinking, Anxiety

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• 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.

  Robert Morgan

  Long, People, Well Known

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• There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

  John Madden

  World, Subjects, Felt

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• Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.

  Dan Brown

  Character, People, Style

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to be in control of giving you an experience, and want you to be acknowledged as an audience and can do things but only in a limited scope.

  Saschka Unseld

  Character, Giving, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Sound

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me telling a story that I felt most qualified to tell. And I loved it, and I'd love to do something else someday, probably more narrative-based. But I'm in no rush.

  Eric Bana

  Lying, Long, Frustrated

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, film.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while.

  Grant Morrison

  Space, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

  Sam Mendes

  Simple, People, Joy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• It's impossible for one or two people to go out and shoot a narrative film; you need to have a cast, the person shooting sound, whatever. But you can legitimately have a couple people and go and do a documentary.

  Jeremy Coon

  Couple, Two, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world.

  James Ellroy

  World, Digital, Avoided

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Powerful, Impact, Documentaries

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Thinking, Done, Documentary Films

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Optimistic, Vision, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

  Andrew Neel

  Escaping, Feel Good, Hopeful

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• [I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

  Matthew Barney

  Sculpture, Stories, Way

  "A Natural Love Story: Matthew Barney Talks About 'Drawing Restraint 9'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2006.

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• If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Unity, Might, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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