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My shows are not narratives.
Narratives are very important to me.
I'm very interested in foundational narratives.
We're all building our narratives in our heads.
People always want narratives to be clean and easy.
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.
I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.
We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.
I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White City' was a fluke.
We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.
To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.
I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.
When I see a league with a lot of change and turnover, yes, there's a lot of big narratives out there, but I see opportunity.
In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.
I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life narratives.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.