Quotes About Narrative

Do you know what history is?" Peter asks. "History?" "Yeah." "I dunno," Frankie says, "it's things that happened." "No," Peter says, "it's what people say happened.

Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all.

Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end." Dortmunder hated stories that were that good, but

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.

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

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Be the hero of your own life story.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.