Narratively Speaking Quotes

#1. So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

#2. At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

Laurie Colwin

#3. There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.

Paula Hawkins

#4. Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

William Finnegan

#5. All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn't understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.

Helen Oyeyemi

#6. A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

Theodore Roethke

#7. We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

Ashwin Sanghi