Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. – Graydon Carter
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. – Haruki Murakami
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly. – John Gregory Dunne
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on. – John Updike
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That’s the nature of genre. – Junot Diaz
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then I try to fit them in. – Jeff Kinney
I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. – Asghar Farhadi
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I’m also very interested in narrative filmmaking. – Barbara Kopple
I’m quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. – Anne Enright
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. – Carter Burwell
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it’s necessary for the characters to change. – Maria Semple
I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative. – James Gunn
If you do a sketch, that’s a very short narrative. Stand-up, it’s bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives. – Kumail Nanjiani
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. – Lydia Davis
Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative. – Rabih Alameddine
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. – Stephen Malkmus