(30 quotes found)
“A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.”
John Updike
“The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.”
John Gregory Dunne
“We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.”
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“We'll have a report out by the end of the month. It will probably be more narrative than numbers. We've gotten a lot more responses than we thought we'd get.”
Dallas Cothrum
“A lot of the studios were scared that when you don't have a narrative, especially with these kinds of game show-type programs, that there might not be enough interest out there for people to buy it. But the assumption that people don't want to have them on their shelves is wrong. Just like there are fans of 'Charmed' and 'The OC,' they want to own every episode of 'Survivor.”
Gord Lacey
“We aren't telling ourselves lies; we're composing heroic narratives that tell us essential truths about ourselves.”
Dan McAdams
“[To find the characters who drive the narrative of] Denison, ... Life in a Small Town.”
Dale Maharidge
“It's a simple narrative on the surface, ... The setting, certainly. And there are certain things that remind one of genre imagery that you've seen before, whether it's action movies or crime movies or Westerns. There are a lot of elements that look familiar. But it's kind of like the family itself. Everything that looks normal, in the end, isn't really. And like a lot of David's movies, at the end you say, 'Well, is anyone really normal?' ”
Viggo Mortensen
“We think those may be the narrative ones,”
Gary Urton
“[All were] pivotal stories in the Australian narrative ... And obviously there is something elemental about the stories, and if that is the case, they speak across time to us today.”
George Miller
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