I love the freedom that the narrative form provides..
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the plac….
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity..
A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts….
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story..
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..
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible..
I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy..
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative..
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative..
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such..
I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives..
History is a set of skills rather than a narrative..
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material..
I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own..
I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative..
Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which t….
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't..
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative.
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 wha….
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….