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I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.
Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.
One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.
What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.
Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.
I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.
The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.
People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.
Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.
There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways.
Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.