Quotes About Narrative

Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

Don't have too much story for the time you have.

It's not the time we spend but how we spend the time that truly tells our story.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."