Quotes About Narrative

I just continued on with the story.

It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

But you like to cry over stories? Oh, yes, in the middle of them. But I like everything to come right at last. I must have one pathetic scene in it, said Anne thoughtfully. I might let ROBERT RAY be injured in an accident and have a death scene. No, you mustn't kill BOBBY off, declared Diana, laughing. He belongs to me and I want him to live and flourish. Kill somebody else if you have to. For

And did she talk to him after that as usual? asked Sara Ray. Oh, yes, she was just the same as she used to be, said the Story Girl wearily. But that doesn't belong to the story. It stops when she spoke at last. You're never satisfied to leave a story where it should stop, Sara Ray.

It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

We get to play God with our stories.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life. —JANE HIRSHFIELD

We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

Generalmente, ésa es la manera en que se escribe la historia, a través de las versiones de los testigos presenciales, que no siempre corresponden a la realidad.

podemos sacar provecho de los beneficios que nos brinda la ficción para sanar nuestras emociones, para escribir nuestra nueva historia con toda libertad

All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.

Do you believe at times that a moment chooses you to remember it entirely & tell about it — so that it may live again? — Laure-Anne Bosselaar, from "Lately," Vox Populi (11 June 2022)

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world.

Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.

Hopper was neither an illustrator nor a narrative painter. His paintings don't tell stories. What they do is suggest—powerfully, irresistibly—that there are stories within them, waiting to be told. He shows us a moment in time, arrayed on a canvas; there's clearly a past and a future, but it's our task to find it for ourselves.

It took a while to tell but it hadn't taken all that long to live;

They are properly described as works of fiction, with the understanding that fiction does not imply lack of truth so much as a willingness to refashion factuality in the service of drama, and perhaps in search of a higher truth.

Yes, one day I found myself writing down with trembing fingers the four words with which every story-teller since the world began has staked his slender claim to the attention of his fellow-men. Words which presage simply the old story of an artist coming of age. I wrote: 'Once upon a time...

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.