Quotes About Narrative

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

sürekli riske maruz kalmak, karakter duygunuzu iyice a??nd?r?r. Ortalamaya doÄŸru regresyon eÄŸilimini yenebilecek hiçbir anlat? yoktur; insan her defas?nda 'baÅŸtan baÅŸlar'.

Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insan?n karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlat?ya dönüÅŸmesini engelleyen ç?lg?n zaman deneyimi aras?nda bir çat??ma yaratt?.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.

Bird 1: This is the wrong story. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.

I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

History is painted by the winners.

You want a better story. Who wouldn't?

Let me tell you a story about war. A man says to another man, Can I tell you something? The other man says, No. A man says to another man, There is something I have to tell you. No, says the other man. No, you don't.

This is also part of the story: how the story changes.

I want to tell you this story without having to be in it

I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything … I want to tell you this story without having to be in it

I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.

She only nodded. "It's all we are in the end. Our stories.

She's a tale spinner," he said. "She spins 'em right outta the air. Tells 'em whole so's you'd think yer readin' a book.

All that we are is story...It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

The future is a story still waiting to be told.

Eh bien, je crois que si certaines personnes écrivent les histoires, d'autres les vivent.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

A good plot is like a dream.