Quotes About Narrative

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.

I love a really good storyline.

Romance is all about making a story out of our love.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

I love writing family stories.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

Robert Frost quote: "Tell other people's stories as if they happened to you, and tell your own as if they happened to other people.

Hij had geprofiteerd van het gemak waarmee je in de grote stad van je 'persoonlijkheid' een goed verhaal kan maken, met kop en staart en een plot die wat te raden overlaat. Identiteit was iets om af te huren, een soort mentale smoking.

Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is and you should know what your myth is, because it might be a tragedy. And maybe you don't want it to be.

You look at the world through a story. You can't help it.

Los seres humanos son curiosos sobre la estructura y la función de todo, y no iba a ser menos en el caso de ellos mismos; nuestra capacidad para contar historias refleja nuestra capacidad para describirnos a nosotros mismos.

The world is a very strange place, and there are times when the metaphorical or narrative description characteristic of culture and the material representation so integral to science appear to touch, when everything comes together—when life and art reflect each other equally.

Everyone requires a story to structure their perceptions and actions in what would otherwise be the overwhelming chaos of being.

It is because our own experience is genuinely literary, narrative, embodied, and storylike that we are so attracted to fictional representations.