Quotes About Narrative

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life.

There is properly no history, only biography.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories.

The Art of BiographyIs different from Geography.Geography is about Maps,But Biography is about Chaps.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Telling this story will be painful. In fact, I do not know if I can tell it truthfully, though I'll try. I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family.

I am the center of the story now, Jule said to herself. I don't have to weigh very little, wear very little, or have my teeth fixed. I am the center.

It is not glamorous that I can't drive a car. It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. However, I am not immune to the feeling of being viewed as a mystery, as a Sinclair, as part of a privileged clan of special people, and as part of a magical, important narrative, just because I am part of this clan. My mother is not immune to it, either. This is who we have been brought up to be. Sinclairs. Sinclairs.

Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that.

Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that. pg. 43

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

A story tells us what happened, but a plot tells us why