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Quotes About Narrative

Sometimes you can't really control the language around you. All you can do is follow your voice and your path - dedicate yourself to stories that matter.
~ Nahnatchka Khan
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
~ Karin Slaughter
I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.
~ Josh Segarra
Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.
~ Marie Lu
You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
~ Christopher Priest
There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.
~ Malachi Kirby
If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.
~ Michael Horse
'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
~ Joe Russo
I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.
~ Robert Kurson
The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.
~ Philip Kerr
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.
~ Katherine Dunn
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
~ Chance The Rapper
This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.
~ Jens Lekman
Film has to describe and show.
~ Ralph Bakshi
Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.
~ Bridgit Mendler
I tell my stories the way I tell them in real life, the way I talk or describe things.
~ Saeed Jaffrey
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
~ Stephen Malkmus
In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.
~ Sabaa Tahir
Every story has a place where it deserves to be told.
~ Rana Daggubati
The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
~ Helmut Lang
If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.
~ Jenova Chen