Narrative Quotes - Page 7

• The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the uneasy relationship between what I was doing and what I believed in - or what I saw as an uneasy relationship between those two things.

  Melissa Febos

  Two, Creating, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

  Kate Zambreno

  Writing, Rhetoric, Oneself

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Men, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Morning, Powerful, Sleep

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.

  Marina Warner

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Plot, Want

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.

  Jill Soloway

  Letting Go, Holiday, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

  Jill Soloway

  Kids, Holocaust, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.

  Jill Soloway

  Struggle, Native American, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Reading, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always been the perfect construction - an inaccessible ideal.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Animal, Perfect, Bird

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I developed it without ever soliciting the advice of anyone else.

  Kevin Keck

  Blessing, Narrative Voice, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as comedy pieces in the vein of performance monologue, such as you might get with Richard Pryor, or Lenny Bruce, or George Carlin. So I don't feel vulnerable because I know the line of demarcation between "Writer Kevin" and "Narrative Kevin."

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Views, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.

  Kevin Keck

  Character, Emotional, Narrative Structure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Character, Expression

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

  Garth Greenwell

  Important, Opera, Not Sure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Issues, President

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• I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

  Viola Davis

  Color, Needs, Actors

  Source: aalbc.com

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• A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

  Elia Suleiman

  Opposites, Space, Psychology

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• I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things are way more dispersed, and way more de-centralised than they were twenty years ago. I don't really feel like people talk about my generation the way people would talk about Generation X in their early 90's when Nirvana blew up. I feel like there was an easier, more coherent narrative to find, than you can now.

  Chris Baio

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

  Jason Gann

  Different, Want, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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

  Peter Greenaway

  Stories, Painting

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative form.

  Mark Duplass

  Documentaries, Tvs, Makers

  Source: collider.com

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• Muslim communities are the ones that going to see radicalization happening at a mosque or hear it in the community or even among their own family members. And the other part is that there is a narrative that ISIS and other jihadists pose that this is a war between Muslims and the rest of the world.

  Marco Rubio

  War, Isis, Community

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn't contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there is a radical element in Islam, jihadism, that needs to be called by name and needs to be confronted.

  Marco Rubio

  Hands, Names, Islam

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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