#narrative

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#different #his #lyrics #narrative #nick

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#becomes #craziness #gossip #history #kind

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#freedom #i #i love #love #narrative

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

#apparent #authority #call #could #events

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#follow #give #happen #information #know

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style. ↗

— James Gunn

#appropriate #beyond #discover #else #find

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. ↗

— Jacqui Stedmon

#life-story #narrative #perspective #experience

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#history #humanity #memory #narrative #reality

Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable implication is that they should have known better than to add to the sum total of those stories which, en masse, do exactly that. And if the listmakers can identify the trend so thoroughly – if, despite all the individual qualifications, protests and contextualisations of the authors, these problems can still be said to exist – then the onus, however disconnected from the work of any one individual, nonetheless falls to those individuals, in their role as cultural creators, to acknowledge the problem; to do better next time; perhaps even to apologise. This last is a particular sticking point. By and large, human beings tend not to volunteer apologies for things they perceive to be the fault of other people, for the simple reason that apology connotes guilt, and how can we feel guilty – or rather, why should we – if we’re not the ones at fault? But while we might argue over who broke a vase, the vase itself is still broken, and will remain so, its shards ground into the carpet, until someone decides to clean it up. Blog Post: Love Team Freezer ↗

— Foz Meadows

#minorities #narratives #writing #ya #love