Quotes About Narrative

You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time: there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie that often, I would say.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Memory dictates and history writes

Opowie?? o m?odo?ci W?adys?awa Gomu?ki przypomina socrealistyczn? nowelk?. Bieda a? piszczy i z tej biedy rodzi si? proletariacka ?wiadomo??.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace.

CHAPTER I Archbishop William, a most learned and holy prelate, having commanded me to put into English writing those great events to which I was a humble witness, I take up my quill in the name of the Lord and my patron saint: trusting that they will aid my feeble powers of narrative for the sake of future generations who may with profit study the account of Sir Roger de Tourneville's campaign and learn thereby fervently to reverence the great God by whom all things are brought to pass.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

Cerita tentang kesenangan selalu tidak menarik. Itu bukan cerita tentang manusia dan kehidupannya , tapi tentang surga, dan jelas tidak terjadi di atas bumi kita ini".

Tidak, yang mati tidak harus bisu. Energi mereka tetap hidup melalui berbagai cara, jalan dan sarana, terutama melalui kenangan dan mulut para nyawa yang lolos dari saringannya di Buru ini. Pada suatu kali mungkin ada yang mampu mencatatnya tanpa tangannya gemetar dan tanpa membasahi kertasnya.

Dongeng adalah medium terindah dalam tradisi lisan nusantara.

A story never ends, it just have incidents.

Maybe your story is written, but you still have a chance to strike it off and overwrite it

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose.

Once we understand that we are writing our own story, the game of life changes completely.

We are writing our own Life Story. Every morning we have to just decide and choose to write the best one!

Permítame que le haga una pregunta. ¿Qué convierte en buena una historia? –La credibilidad.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.