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“A story with a problem is like a person with a problem: interesting.”

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Book:A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Source: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.”

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Book:The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

Source: The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

“The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“He managed to do this 'tour de force' of styles without ever breaking the narrative structure of the chapter he was writing. It is the most brilliant parody of writing styles that I have ever read.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.”

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Author:Kevin Keck

“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”

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Author:Manning Marable

“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”

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Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.”

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Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.”

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Book:No Regrets, Coyote

Source: No Regrets, Coyote

“The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.”

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Book:Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

“I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.”

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Author:Anthony Braxton