Quotes About Narrative

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories... as well as mine.

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

Infatuation is the inciting incident. Maybe it goes somewhere, maybe it doesn't, but you can't have a story without it. Love is the story itself, the thing we carry with us after the mountains are gone.

Did I ever tell you about the time....

To this day, most attempts to stage the history of transatlantic slavery in museums have stood out through their vacuity. In them, the slave appears, at best, as the appendix to another history, a citation at the bottom of a page devoted to someone else, to other places, to other things. For that matter, were the figure of the slave really to enter into the museum, such as it exists nowadays, the museum would automatically cease to be.

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't.

History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners.

With every step he took in Africa, Stanley planned how to tell the story once he got home. In a twentieth-century way, he was always sculpting the details of his own celebrity.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written

Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.