#narrative

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#better #build #continuing #down #history

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#events #narrative #national #national standards #past

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#folk #i #like #narrative #part

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#follow #give #happen #information #know

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice. ↗

— Victor LaValle

#inspirational #narrative-perspective #plot #voice #inspirational

If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes." Tasmin Berrybender ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#jane-austen #romance #tasmin #marriage

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#music #narrative #inspirational

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#narrative #necessity #never #pattern #wants

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#disappearance #intelligence #language #narrative #beauty

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. ↗

— Isaac Babel

#narrative #on-fiction #reality #story #life