#narrative

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#contained #excursions #horseback #journey #june

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#coalition #created #fdr #finish #gain

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#feature #feature films #film #films #least

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world. ↗

— James Cameron

#create #creating #detailed #later #level

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#be strong #constructed #fiction #film #get

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#i love #kinds #love #movies #narratives

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

#alter #aspire #consciousness #deep #infiltrate

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#children #drive #gives #narrative #sense

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i see #medium #narrative #picture #rather