Quotes About Narrative

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.

Trying to believe his story kilt her.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.

Art isn't necessarily about beauty. Art is supposed to make you feel something. And I began to realize that my appearance is my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story. My story. - Ariel Henly

I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. One, it has to have at least two women in it; two, two women talking to each other, and three, talking about something besides a man

Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.

Some people tell lies about the past. Her dad tells lies about the future. He is always telling a new story.

La memoria es ficción. Seleccionamos lo más brillante y lo más oscuro, ignorando lo que nos avergüenza, y así bordamos el ancho tapiz de nuestra vida

What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a story, a part to play in order to avoid the realization that life is without significance. How else do any of us survive? It's what makes life bearable, even interesting. When it becomes neither, people say you've lost the plot. Or just lost it.

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

The circumstances I am about to relate to you have truth to recommend them.

If you want to properly tell a story, you have to be willing to write it a thousand ways. And then you must be brave enough to share it with others.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.

what really happened doesn't matter half so much as what people want to hear.

The past isn't made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.

You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.

No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.