Quotes About Narrative

It sounds nicer than it seems in the book, she would say. I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story. It is a story, Sara would answer. They are all stories. Everything is a story—everything in this world. You are a story—I am a story—Miss Minchin is a story. You can make a story out of anything.

Everything's a story — You are a story — I am a story.

Everything's a story. You are a story - I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

Everything's a story. You are a story -I am a story. - Sara Crewe

Under Magnolia is much more than an entrancing memoir: it is a work of art that defies the distinction between prose and poetry or novels and autobiographies. It is also much more than a personal narrative: it is an unflinching meditation on the relation between self and culture, and, more specifically, on the gravitational pull of memory. This is a book to be savored, a feast for both mind and soul.

Where this story stops, they look into a mirror reflecting a mirror where the story begins and reflects a mirror where the story continues.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

If we don't write our stories, how will we truly know who we are? How will we define the world? How will we touch the mysteries of life?

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind tham lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you're going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

Gli storici esercitano un grande potere, e alcuni di loro lo sanno. Essi creano il passato, cambiandolo per adeguarlo alle proprie interpretazioni. Così, cambiano anche il futuro.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts divert attention from the secret influences around the recorded events.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve. My story tells you something about how our societies find a structural necessity for sub-groups." Moneo

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.