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Quotes About Narrative

o essencial no romance é aquilo que não pode ser dito senão por um romance, em toda adaptação só fica o que não é essencial
~ Milan Kundera
Her erkeÄŸin iki çeÅŸit seks biyografisi vard?r: Genellikle yaln?z birincisinden, yani cinsel iliÅŸkiler ve rastlant?lardan oluÅŸan bir listeden sözedilir. Daha ilginç olan?, kuÅŸkusuz öteki biyografidir: elde etmek istediÄŸimiz ve elimizden kaç?rd???m?z kad?nlar?n toplam?, sonuçland?r?lamam?? çabalar?n ac?h öy-küsü.
~ Milan Kundera
For twenty years he had thought about nothing but his return. But once he was back, he was amazed to realize that his life, the very essence of his life, its center, its treasure, lay outside Ithaca, in the twenty years of his wanderings. And this treasure he had lost, and could retrieve only by telling about it.
~ Milan Kundera
Mluvívá se o láskách na první pohled; jsem si pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ dobÃ…â"¢e vÄ›dom toho, že láska má sklon vytváÃ…â"¢et sama ze sebe legendu a zpÄ›tnÄ› mytizovat své po?átky
~ Milan Kundera
I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
~ Patrick J. Adams
In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.
~ Paul Feig
I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.
~ Phil Keoghan
I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.
~ Oliver Stone
I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
~ Rachel Zucker
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.
~ Rashida Jones
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
~ Richelle Mead
I love TV as a viewer.
~ Rose Byrne
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.
~ Sarah Kay
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
~ Sergio Aragones
There's no good story without romance.
~ Stephenie Meyer
The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
~ T. J. Thyne
I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.
~ Teryl Rothery
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.
~ Tobias Wolff
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
~ Anne Enright
I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
~ Ben Macintyre
People love stories. They need stories.
~ Caroline Leavitt