Narrative Quotes

You see people taking storytelling more seriously... Shows like 'Lost' and '24' have complex narratives you couldn't think about doing in film. - Jeffrey Sconce

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. - Jeff Bezos

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. - Tom Stoppard

Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence. - Barbara Barstow

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. - Helen Dunmore

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. - Norman Macleod

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. - Jon Ronson

Without giving too much away, the storyline centers around a family that seeks to live out their dreams of becoming circus stars and the journey that takes them there. The story serves as the narrative thread that takes the audience through the show. - Alan Miller

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them. - Jeffrey Eugenides