Quotes About Narrative

Moreover, what purpose, if any, is served by your stories? Whom do they benefit?

The Golden Notebook

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

There's so much I can't read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.

I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

once you set up your story, you should step into it and write as if you are living in that fictional dream. The result would be a story that would make readers feel that they, too, were in a seamless story, a dream.

If you have a seriousness of purpose, which is to understand yourself, human nature, the world, and the conflicts that make us infinitely interesting, you will find the stories that you want o tell.

Once the story captures my senses, I am no longer conscious of the act of reading words. I am in the story.

any legend is not worth making up if it does not include a murder or two.

Isn't the past what people remember- who did what, how and why? And what the people remember, isn't that mostly what they've already chosen to believe?

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.

The self requires a story.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

Istoria este ficÅ£iunea care s-a întâmplat. FicÅ£iunea este istoria care s-ar fi putut întâmpla

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet

Tell the story of your village. If you tell it well, you will have told the story of the world.

Ich erfinde keine Geschichten. Ich schreibe eine andere Sorte Geschichten. Ich schreibe so wahrhaftig wie der Mann mit seinen Fingern, wenn ich nur alles behalten und sagen kann; aber ich bin nicht auf seiner Seite. Ich bin auf einer anderen Seite. Ich sage die Wahrheit, aber aus einer anderen Sicht. Ich bin diejenige, der er es angetan hat. Der Köder spricht, Süßer.

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.