#narrative

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #least #narrative #point #priority

I hear music as narrative. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#hear music #i #music #narrative

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#i #i think #narrative #rap #right

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#alone #little #narrative #novel #sit

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#god #gods #human #live #most

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#freedom #i #i love #love #narrative

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

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