Quotes About Narrative

I mean, life is kind of like your own movie. You collect your characters to play your friends or acquaintances, your lovers. You're the casting director of your own life.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

Comics have always been storyboards.

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.

I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories.

I think the challenge in hour television or half-hour television is that the more it's around, certainly on commercial television, the less time you have to tell stories these days, because the more commercials they're putting in.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

Medicine and writing are natural companions.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

I actually grew up seeing a lot of classical theater - a lot of Shakespeare - but I have such a passion for music and find that way of telling a story to be really compelling as well.