"I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay."
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"Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else."
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"What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way."
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"There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today."
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"Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy."
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"I think it was around the time of doing those shorts. [Producer] Christine Vachon, I had a meeting with her, and she mentioned the short, this AOL short, and asked if I wanted to do one. And then the next step was the "30 for 30," and again that boosted my confidence enough to decide I'm going to do a feature narrative. And I was supported by my agency, and [producer] Jane Rosenthal has been an exceptional friend, and she produced "All We Had," she encouraged me to do the "30 for 30.""
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"I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage."
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"Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative."
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"The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying."
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"I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them."
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience."
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"What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative."
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"To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader."
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"I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters."
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