Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers..

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative..

I hear music as narrative..

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows f….

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars..

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative..

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today..

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world..

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any parti….

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or ….

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

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness..

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 cheape….

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger..

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of t….

I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see peo….

…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 ….

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives..

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read..

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives..