Quotes About Narrative

History a distillation of rumor.

History is a great dust heap.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Istoria este distilarea zvonurilor.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

I've always been drawn more to film. But 'Bloodline,' to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story.

I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.

When I went to AI New England in Boston, I used to do my mixtapes, and honestly, if you look back at any of my mixtapes, every single mixtape tells a story.

What we are trying to do now, this new generation of African writers, is to write about what it is to be a human being living in a particular African country. These are stories that resonate with anyone, anywhere.

If you want to tell a new story, it is a risk. But then you have to do it in the best financial way as possible.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

When we were making games in the early '90s for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, popular games didn't have any real story.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.