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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. -- Bruce Springsteen
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. -- Barry Ritholtz
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes. -- Andrew Neel
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. -- Rachel Weisz
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. -- David Antin
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. -- Paul Ricoeur
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. -- Rupert Holmes
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope. -- Bruce Feiler
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. -- Graydon Carter
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. -- James Gunn
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. -- Nick Cave
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. -- Aminatta Forna
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. -- Jeff Bezos
The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences. -- Chris Avellone
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. -- Lydia Davis
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. -- Anne Enright
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. -- Tim Vine
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. -- Barry Ritholtz
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. -- Ray McKinnon
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness. -- J. C. Chandor
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. -- Tobias Wolff
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. -- Paul Ricoeur
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. -- Shane Black
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. -- Ambrose Bierce
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. -- Peter Greenaway
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder -- Paul Ricoeur
Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. -- Margaret Atwood
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. -- Ambrose Bierce
History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another. -- Thomas C. Foster
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. -- Kenneth R. Miller
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. -- Peter Morgan
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. -- Regina Spektor
Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. -- Chuck Wendig
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative. -- Romola Garai
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things. -- Michael Graves
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock. -- Damon Runyon
I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. -- Alison Owen
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself. -- Scott Bradfield
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told. -- Brian Selznick
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work. -- Bruce Chatwin
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled. -- Ilana Mercer
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil. -- Karina Longworth
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end. -- Norman Lock
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible. -- Hilary Mantel
I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again? -- Craig Finn
The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence. -- Patricia Lee Gauch
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation. -- Roma Downey
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back. -- Paul Theroux

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