Quotes About Narrative

Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life