Quotes About Narrative

What is only crudely established during character creation is fleshed out in play.

they are left exposed to internalize views of the United States as a nation innately and exceptionally good, and a pure beacon of equality and justice. The less critical our children are of such a narrative, the more difficult it will be for them to really stand up for justice.

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.

Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you." ? The Inheritance Games

telling the story so no one else tells it for you.

Like all stories, it has pieces which are true, and pieces which are fiction. Nothing is ever really what it seems. Remember

May 13 Deduction. Reduction. Redaction. How much has been redacted from the carefully curated version of our story?

Because that's what our family does. Pretends that if we don't talk about a thing, it didn't happen. As if we could shape the truth with our stories, or lack thereof.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

And, as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy.

There's beauty in every story. And there's a story in everything.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things… You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

The stories of our lives can be told in so many ways, but no one account, no matter how carefully rendered, is completely true. Words are, at best, only an outline

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

I felt myself tense up, having long noticed that this was something men (and boys, obviously) did after any breakup. Dub their exes "crazy." Discredit them, make it seem as if the men were lucky to have gotten out of the relationship. In fact, Julie had once told me it was the most common narrative in the aftermath of a divorce—the justification men used for their own misconduct. A form of misogyny.

Jack. He'd never give us a phone, or a window. Ma takes my thumbs and squeezes them. We are people in a book, and he wont let anybody else read it.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.

Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.

So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

Wenn ich gewinne, wird man sagen, ich sei ein Genie, wenn ich verliere, wird es heißen, ich sei übergeschnappt. So wird Geschichte geschrieben.

More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. Today is the great age of historical mythology. The defence of history by its professionals is today more urgent in politics than ever. We are needed.