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

Brian Eno

Over time and cultures, the most robust and most effective form of communication is the creation of a powerful narrative.

Howard Gardner

Art is a narrative and tells a lot of personal stories. If we don't try to save the history of our culture, of our communities, we lose that forever.

Heather Becker

[To find the characters who drive the narrative of] Denison, ... Life in a Small Town.

Dale Maharidge

Austen is a really beautiful writer when it comes to narrative and dialogue. Her writing is beautiful and elegant. As a novelist, she's one of the best.

Helen Thompson

Soccer is more than a national sport. It's a national narrative.

Beppe Severgnini

We think those may be the narrative ones.

Gary Urton

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

John Gregory Dunne

On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.

Rowan Woods

They're narrative films, but there's also something very experimental in the way that the narrative works. You sometimes watch one of these films and in the end you're like, what just happened? That was really funny, but I have no idea what just happened in the plot. I like that.

Dave Douglas

My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done and not done. No hospitals, no invasive surgeries. He had a living will, which is like a narrative of your life that you get to finish. It was his legacy -- what he wanted to leave his family: emotionally, financially, spiritually.

Carlos Gomez

It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the 'improbable events' in the story are matters of fact, taken from the printed narrative.

Wilkie Collins

Needs a narrative, a reason that voters should give him a look.

George Edwards

I always incorporate into my lectures the voices of everyday people and people long excluded from the American narrative.

Leon Litwack

An Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.

Naguib Mahfouz

Alice is sort of an every woman. There's no narrative that carries through the show. Themes carry though the show.

Bill Kirkley

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

W. S. Gilbert

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

George Armstrong Custer

She's an amazing actress. You need to believe the journey that character goes on, and I think Natalie lets you really believe it. She's your guide through the narrative. It's really about her presence and her intelligence.

James Mcteigue

Film-makers keep the narrative screws fastened tight, which gives The Goblet of Fire an intensity that rarely flags.

Todd Mccarthy

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

E. L. Doctorow