Quotes for All
So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That’s something I’ve learned about, because it’s the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don’t work in this fashion but I … Read more
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. Earnest Hooton
It’s not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That’s why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don’t hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes. Dumitru Tepeneag
Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you’ve got narration. David Mamet
If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience). David Mamet
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to … Read more
If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of. David Hume
I don’t like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I’m only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art. … Read more
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play. Charlotte Mary Yonge
I’ve always hated quotation marks: they’re ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. Catherine Brady