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Quotes About Narration

There is so much bias for self-love, so much recklessness about truth in general, and so much of even a sincere faithlessness of narration, that no partial account of anything is to be trusted.
~ Kate Summerscale
To begin, it is narrated by Death!
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Janine looks at her watch. "Janine looks at her watch," Daniel says. "She is bored with the old writer." Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The narrator commands the Muse, "Tell me": enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.
~ Homer
His mind was constantly thinking about her, while he decided to recite a poem that he had written for her long ago. While he narrated, the words conjured memories like ghosts into the room.
~ Sulaiman Sait, THE BLIND TRIAL
Una historia es, en definitiva, una conversación entre quien la narra y quien la escucha, y un narrador solo puede contar hasta donde le llega el oficio y un lector solo puede leer hasta donde lleva escrito en el alma.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Todo es un cuento... Lo que creemos, lo que conocemos, lo que recordamos e incluso lo que soñamos. Todo es un cuento, una narración, una secuencia de sucesos y personajes que comunican un contenido emocional. Un acto de fe es un acto de aceptación, aceptación de una hitoria que se nos cuenta. Sólo aceptamos como verdadero aquello que puede ser narrado.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Todo es un cuento, Martín. Lo que creemos, lo que conocemos, lo que recordamos e incluso lo que soñamos. Todo es un cuento, una narración, una secuencia de sucesos y personajes que comunican un contenido emocional. Un acto de fe es un acto de aceptación, aceptación de una historia que se nos cuenta. Solo aceptamos como verdadero aquello que puede ser narrado.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Odakle želite da po?nem? Vi ste pripovjeda?. Samo vas molim da mi kažete istinu. Ne znam što je istina. Istina je ono što boli.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He] taught me many things: how to create a sentence, how to think about language and all its devices as an orchestra and search of a musical score, how to analyze a text and understand how it is constructed and why... He taught me to read and write again, but this time I knew what I was doing, why, and what for. And above all how. He never tired of telling me that in literature there is only one real theme: not what is narrated, but how it is narrated. The rest, he said, was decoration.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Un acto de fe es un acto de aceptación, aceptación de una historia que se nos cuenta. Sólo aceptamos como verdadero aquello que puede ser narrado.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Uma história é, em definitivo uma conversa entre quem narra e quem escuta, e um narrador só pode contar até onde vai a sua perícia, e um leitor, só pode ler até onde está escrito em sua alma.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Perfume should tell a story –
~ Kathleen Tessaro
The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents, monsters, demons, and so on, and who liberates his people from destruction and death. The narration or ritual repetition of sacred texts and ceremonies, and the worship of such a figure with dances, music, hymns, prayers, and sacrifices, grip the audience with numinous emotions and exalt the individual to an identification with the hero.
~ C.G. Jung
I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way.
~ Isabel Allende
I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first and do a lot of work in the first pages of each issue to try to re-establish things and keep the symbolism of a story very tucked beneath the surface.
~ Scott Snyder
As a kid, I wanted to be a sportscaster. On the radio. I loved the idea of painting a picture. I didn't want to be on TV. I wanted to be Jon Miller, who called all the Orioles games.
~ Thomas Kail
I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.
~ Randall Munroe
And that was the voice of Peeta
~ Suzanne Collins
World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
~ L.A. Reid
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
certain professionals, while believing they are experts, are in fact not. Based on their empirical record, they do not know more about their subject matter than the general population, but they are much better at narrating—or, worse, at smoking you with complicated mathematical models. They are also more likely to wear a tie.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our inability to predict in environments subjected to the Black Swan, coupled with a general lack of the awareness of this state of affairs, means that certain professionals, while believing they are experts, are in fact not. Based on their empirical record, they do not know more about their subject matter than the general population, but they are much better at narrating—or, worse, at smoking you with complicated mathematical models. They are also more likely to wear a tie.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb