Narratives 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

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

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

We aren't telling ourselves lies; we're composing heroic narratives that tell us essential truths about ourselves. - Dan McAdams

To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. - Ben Kingsley

They are hybrid narratives so that the viewer constructs his or her own story. - Catherine Wagner

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. - Stan Sakai

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. - David Antin

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. - Pranab Mukherjee