Quotes About Author

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.

I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

With 'Midnight Special,' the sound was used as a narrative construct. The audience is looking in one direction when a sound suddenly erupts from the other direction.

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

Because boys tend to dominate the narrative for who's at risk, sometimes they dominate the lion's share of services, too.

From a narrative perspective, 'Blue Shift' for the PC and 'Blue Shift' for the Dreamcast are very similar.

'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives.

We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.

I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story.

For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too.

Joe Biden articulated... a very narrow view of Black folks.

I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

I know that's what Goodyear wants and what NASCAR wants and what the drivers want as far as safety is concerned.

I have taken restarts and have come to the conclusion myself that I can't give NASCAR that opportunity to penalize me.

I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.

I love the show 'Nashville,' I mean, that's a show that's pretty incredible.