Quotes About Perspective

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

Well, I think you do have to admire Nancy Pelosi.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this when you have no children?' Maybe I just do and that's how it is. It all comes from my personality and what I believe in.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

I've been a character artiste for four decades, and in our job, we learn very early that it doesn't pay to be narcissistic.

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be interpreted. You don't have a choice... Each play can become many things.

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and the less attention I give to the argument. Arguments come and go.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.

If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.