#narrative

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#also #both #brought #brutality #building

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

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#cannot #character #character development #children #complex

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#forms #narrative #poems #poets #southern

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #known #long #lot #many

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