First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work..

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters..

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible..

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even comp….

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairl….

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with..

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience..

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which enterta….

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it mea….

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity..

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

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

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative..

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..

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't..

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative..

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away..

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness..

As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part o….

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else..