I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
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 of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
Why would there be any contacts with Russian between the presidential campaign? This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.
Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.
I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines, I wanted it to actually be narrative violence. I wasn't interested in fetishizing violence in any way of making it feel cool or slow-motion violence. I wanted it to be just violence that affected the story.
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
Narrative is the beginning of recovery.
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.
Change the narrative, change the laws.
I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.