Quotes About Narrative

Chaque fois qu'on m'a parlé de lui, cela commençait par « il ne savait ni lire ni écrire », comme si sa vie et son caractère ne se comprenaient pas sans cette donnée initiale.

She has no defined self, but "selves" who pass from one book to another.

Es posible que un relato como este provoque irritación o repulsión, o que sea tachado de mal gusto. El hecho de haber vivido algo, sea lo que sea, otorga el derecho imprescriptible de escribir sobre ello. No existe una verdad inferior. Y si no cuento esta experiencia hasta el final, contribuiré a oscurecer la realidad de las mujeres y me pondré del lado de la dominación masculina del mundo.)

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

One thing about writing 'The Sarah Silverman Program' was the concern that I don't give myself the best story, you know what I mean?

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.

My background industry is design - I code a lot, too - but there's been this narrative of design in technology becoming more prominent. What the UI enables on Pinterest is this human activity that ends up creating a great database.

You know, this entire industry, and its not just this industry, it's most people in media, come from one point of view. One. And I am making you a promise on that one. And there is one of me, and they can't stand that there is one dissenting voice. They can only indict my motives.

I can't physically put someone over, but I can feel very confident in my ability to tell a story through a promo.

Every step is basically a word, especially with musical theatre, because you're not doing it for dance's sake, you're promoting a story - and, more than that, a moral. You're propelling a story.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.

Vada Chennai' is a proper mainstream film, told in a sensible way.

I look for a great story. One that I would like to watch, or tell, or that I think needs to be told, because I know that, as an actress, I have a responsibility to tell certain stories and to tell them properly.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.