267 Quotes About Narrative

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,