Quotes About Narrative

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

Subsequent history is written as if these normative positions were the product of social consensus rather than of conflict

Todos los narradores tienen que elegir —explicó el contador de historias—. Algunos envuelven a sus personajes en un halo de desesperación, mientras que otros eligen un aura de esperanza.

Explicar las cosas tal y como han sucedido es lo más aburrido del mundo. Debería de estar prohibido. Yo invento las historias por pura cortesía.

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again. She is the protagonist of a Love Story.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. But then I look at the things I've seen and done, and I become a long scrawly line of something important.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do. I

Something occurs to me. "Have you ever tried writing something from Astrid's point of view?

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

But that's the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

Remember, you can't change anybody else. But you can write your own story differently.

My father had always been an accomplished storyteller; it was his substitute for conversation, which required too much attention to the other person.

Sylvie had read somewhere that the more times a story was told, the less accurate it became. Humans were prone to exaggeration; they leaned away from the parts of the narrative they found boring and leaned into the exciting spots. Details and timelines changed over years of repetition. The story became more myth and less true. Sylvie thought about how she and William rarely told their story and felt pleased; by not being shared, their love story remained intact.

they're contained in their bodies, in the biographical facts of their lives.

She did horror stories on herself, filling in blanks where I refused to supply information. This meant she wrote the entire script herself.

In film, you can have sad endings.

Like the Marxist structuralist approach to subjectivity, psychoanalysis makes culturally available a narrative that complicates the assumption that an identity is the natural property of any individual.

Above all, the old newspapers and broadcasters created the possibility of a single national conversation. In many advanced democracies there is now no common debate, let alone a common narrative. People have always had different opinions. Now they have different facts.

El ruido de los debates, el constante rumor del desacuerdo, pueden irritar a aquellas personas que prefieren vivir en una sociedad unida por un solo relato. Esa marcada preferencia por la unidad, al menos entre una parte de la población, contribuye a explicar por qué numerosas revoluciones liberales o democráticas, desde 1789 en adelante, terminaron en dictaduras que gozaron de un amplio apoyo.

I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.