NARRATIVE QUOTES

• I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.
  ~ Peter Guber ~
• My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
  ~ Peter Guber ~
• The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
  ~ Edward Norton ~
• I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
  ~ Tony Kushner ~
• 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 ~
• The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
  ~ Robert Morgan ~
• To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
  ~ Lord Chesterfield ~
• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
  ~ Jerry Saltz ~