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“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.”

Writing May Has Beens Facts Stories Process Reader Fit Narrative

Book:Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”

World Writing Book Couple Fit Areas Focused Mood Setting Settings Narrative Atmosphere Constructs Writing A Book

Author:China Mieville

“I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.”

Way Want Stories Style Type Fit Hollywood My Way Narrative Not Interested Accents Temperament Mold

Author:Haile Gerima

“The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.”

Humans Doe Fall Fit Percent Patterns Narrative Oblivion Human Experience Ninety

Author:Mason Cooley

“Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.”

Knows Way Taught Fit Photography Narrative Neat

Author:Richard Misrach

“The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.”

Source: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

“One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.”

Reason Tvs Fit Ideals Structure Narrative Compare

Book:The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

Source: The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.”

Ifs Kind Real Character Body Fiction Violence Example Fit Scripts Instance Narrative Genre Encounters Minorities Norm Messy Lisbeth Salander

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.”

Feels Felt Identity Fit Comfortable Standards Hollywood Narrative Related Matched

Author:Lena Dunham

“When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his vision and his teaching that don't fit the established story line, the Church has a problem.”

Stories Problem Church Lines Vision Teaching Media Fit Aspect Narrative Concrete Pope Filters Bending

Author:George Weigel