Incomplete Narrative Quotes

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

One of my biggest peeves is when the writer hasn't given you enough information to figure everything out. You should be able to go back to the beginning of 'Gone Girl,' after you've already read it and you know everything, and say, 'Check - check - yes, she gave us that information.'

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.