“The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.” IfsWould BeOpinionDoubtWiseTeachingElementsHistoricalNarrativeTestamentFabulousNew TestamentBeing WiseOld TestamentChuck Author:C. S. Lewis
“There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.” ArtTwoDifferentDoneFeelingsFormDifferencesElementsNarrativeFascinatingOrchestration Author:Steven Soderbergh
“For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.” ThinkingMeanAbleCausesElementsIntuitionNarrativeIntroducingIntuitive Author:James Arthur
“But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.” StoriesFilmChallengesSpecialElementsCleanComplexesNarrativeMaintainingStraightforward Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.” GivingStoriesProblemFormGivenElementsTasksEssenceNarrativeShellsObscurePenetrate Author:Deborah Eisenberg
“That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.” StoriesShowsGroupsElementsSeriesDefinitionsNarrativeEpisodesContinuing Author:John Landgraf
“Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.” WantGivingShouldStoriesElementsPhotographyNarrative Author:Sarah Moon
“Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would otherwise never hear your work, and of course I find that very notion inspiring. Radio stories are powerful because the human voice is powerful. It has been and will continue to be the most basic element of storytelling. As a novelist (and I should note that working my novel is the first thing I do in the morning and the very last thing I do before I sleep), shifting into this new medium is entirely logical. It's still narrative, only with different tools.” PeopleShouldFirstsHumansKindHas BeensStillsDifferentStoriesLastsCoursesVoiceSleepPowerfulMorningNovelCuttingElementsToolsNotesNotionRadioStorytellingMediumsNarrativeNovelistsLogicalShiftingHuman Voice Author:Daniel Alarcon
“And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn't contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there is a radical element in Islam, jihadism, that needs to be called by name and needs to be confronted.” NeedsHandsNamesElementsIslamRadicalNarrativeAcknowledgeVictimization Author:Marco Rubio
“If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.” IfsDifferentFactsNextPleasurePowerfulEventsProduceDevelopmentTrumpAmountElementsAspectSizeNarrativeJudgedDispleasureSequencing Author:Antonio Damasio
“There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.” FictionCasesElementsNarrativeRunnersWovenKites Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.” ShouldBelieveCharacterLanguageI BelieveNovelDevelopmentElementsShould HaveMetaphorMemoirDialogueNarrativeCharacter Development Author:Danielle Trussoni
“I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.” RealityGamesStruggleTeamFootballElementsMythologyWarriorNarrativeGradesCombatFourthUniformsGroundedFourth Grade Author:Steve Sabol
“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.” WritingMadeLanguageHeardWalkingElementsNarrative Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.” WritingFirstsRealFormLanguageTermFictionElementsOriginalsNarrativeOperationsSignificanceDistributionRevealingExplicitPerversionEnigmaticContamination Author:Brion Gysin