Narrative Theory Quotes

#1. I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.

Rob Roberge

#2. He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Charles Baudelaire

#3. At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Nic Pizzolatto

#4. I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Lydia Davis

#5. Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

Robert Webb

#6. Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

#7. This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been.

Terry Pratchett

#8. It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around ... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.

Barbara Tuchman

#9. Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.

Jacob M. Held

#11. I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

Pansy Ho

#12. In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

Barry Ritholtz

#13. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

Philippe Kahn

#14. We can think of the land bridge theory as a master narrative that for a couple of centuries has served multiple ideological agendas, lasting despite decades of growing evidence that casts doubt on the way the story has been perpetuated in textbooks and popular media.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#15. I wanted to begin a new life where I didn't know a soul.

Haruki Murakami

#16. The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Bud Selig