Quotes About Narrative

All of life is a story

All of Madeleine's writing, fiction and nonfiction, was an example of how all narrative is fiction, and all fiction can be true.

When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.

Fiction, in a less direct way, will teach me, teach me things I would never learn had I not opened myself to them in story.

That's what we both hate about fiction, or at least crappy fiction—it purports to provide occasions for thinking through complex issues, but really it has predetermined the positions, stuffed a narrative full of false choices, and hooked you on them, rendering you less able to see out, to get out.

At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell. I say trick but what I really mean is challenge, because it's a very hard thing to do.

Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

No guts, no story.

Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

Great struggles make for great stories.

Tell me your story and I will get back your life.

A human life is a story told by God.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

History is notoriously not about the past.

Non capisci, Nimi sogna solo per poter raccontare. E poi, i suoi sogni, non smettono nemmeno dopo che si è svegliato, la mattina.

What surrounded me did not count. All that counted was made of words.