Quotes About Narrative Structure

#1. A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

John Dufresne

#2. I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#3. After all, I was only eighteen then. I'm almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I'm doing.

Daniel Handler

#4. As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

Kate Bernheimer

#5. The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

Johnny Depp

#6. I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.

Peter Jackson

#7. I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#8. That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.

Edward Hirsch

#9. He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.

Frederick Lenz

#10. True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Don DeLillo

#11. Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

Kesha

#12. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Irvine Welsh

#13. Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

David Miliband

#14. Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

Chris Squire

#15. Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough ... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

James Carroll

#16. I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

Jordan Pruitt

#17. Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. I regard the tale of Arwen and Aragorn as the most important of the Appendices [in Lord of The Rings]; it is part of the essential story, and is only placed so, because it could not be worked into the main narrative without destroying its structure ...
[From letter 181]

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. God is the STRUCTURE of Life, not the Narrative.

Hertzan Chimera

#20. My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#21. It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Don DeLillo

#22. Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

Penelope Lively

#23. In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Lionel Shriver

#24. To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.

David Salle

#25. As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#26. She stood in one smooth motion, surprisingly pale where the sun not touch her, slender and hard-muscled, yet with roundnesses and softnesses that haunted his dreams.

Robert Jordan

#27. I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

Matthea Harvey

#28. Throughout these early years, the engineers credited Eberhard with making quick, crisp decisions. Rarely did Tesla get hung up overanalyzing a situation. The company would pick a plan of attack, and when it failed at something, it failed fast and then tried a new approach. It

Ashlee Vance

#29. For the first time in his centuries of life, doing the right thing didn't seem like the right thing to do.

Marissa Clarke

#30. One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

Kate Bush

#31. Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

Brian Behlendorf

#32. Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#33. Childhood is a slum and they love it.

Helen Dunmore

#34. A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Henry George

#35. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.

Alexandra Katehakis