Quotes About Narrative

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

The divine art is the story.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

Art is the most important way of recording history.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.