#narrative

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. ↗

— James McBride

#first #how #know #make #narrative

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #compete #culture #disruptive #economic

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#decision #instead #interested #made #more

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. ↗

— Johann Most

#book #god #his #idiot #listen

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#becoming #cannot #cloak #commitment #continuing

I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#came #community #cultural #different #different ways

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book. ↗

— Clive Owen

#based #because #book #different #different thing

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#easy #feel #had #how #i

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#confined #crises #generals #great #historical