“I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.” FeelsUsedEasyImagineInstinctNarrative Author:Christopher Eccleston
“I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.” IfsThinkingWellsHeartMeanFormNovelImagineCurrentsMedicalInventionNarrativeThriveAnimationSkepticalRipeTextbooksReinvention Author:Jeff Bezos
“I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.” PeopleWayWritingMadeStoriesUseMemoriesFictionImagineEventsReaderSettingSettingsNarrativeBoredNon Fiction Author:Sefi Atta
“You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.” KnowsFeelsTryingI CanUseFilmSoundImagineMastersTiredLifetimeVery GoodNarrativeGetting TiredSound And Music Author:Dave McKean
“Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.” StoriesImagineDesignProductsCapacityNarrativeProduct Design Author:Michael Graves
“When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.” ThinkingImaginePaintingMagazinesNarrative Author:Chantal Joffe
“There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.” RunningAbleBehindsImagineStandingCamerasPhotographerNarrative Author:James Welling
“I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative.” IfsThinkingHumansSometimesMightFormHuman BeingsImagineActivityNarrativeGreat WritersEmulateSurrogates Author:George Saunders