Quotes About Narrative

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

I write to breathe life back into memory.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.