Narrative Competition Features

Famous quotes containing the words narrative, competition and/or features:

    “The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.”
    —Robert Coover (b. 1932)

    “All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.”
    —T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)

    “Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)