#narrative

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#fiction #longer #narrative #nonfiction #only

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#challenge #i #itself #mass #mass media