Quotes About Narrative

When the young king had finished his sad story he burst once more into tears, and the Sultan was much moved.

That in real life, there are no protagonists. Or, rather, the reverse: It's nothing but protagonists. It's protagonists all the way down.

But what I am trying to tell you (and I only have a moment), what I have been trying to tell you this whole time, is that from where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad. Because it is also mine.

From where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad.

Every book it's the hardest part-finding the way in, finding the voice to tell the story. H

After you've forged meaning, you need to incorporate that meaning into a new identity, you need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph. Evincing a better self, in response to things that have caused you hurt.

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

Truman Capote said that he learned how to write a story not from reading but from sitting on his aunts' front porch in Alabama and listening to them tell stories. This was my earliest education in the art of storytelling too.

You are going to love some of your characters, because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. But no matter what, you are probably going to have to let bad things happen to some of the characters you love or you won't have much of a story. Bad things happen to good characters, because our actions have consequences, and we do not all behave perfectly all the time.

Now, I've argued that the motivation for Islamists and jihadists is ideological dogma, fed to them by charismatic recruiters who play on a perceived sense of grievance and an identity crisis. In fact, I believe that four elements exist in all forms of ideological recruitment: a grievance narrative, whether real or perceived; an identity crisis; a charismatic recruiter; and ideological dogma. The

Novel: A small tale, generally of love.

ALLEGER  (ALLE'GER)   n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.

ANECDOTE  (A'NECDOTE)   n.s.[   yet unpublished; secret history. Some modern ancedotes aver,He nodded in his elbow-chair.Prior.

Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns.

It was difficult to sympathize with a protagonist whose dilemma was mild when compared to her own.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself...

The Lemon Tree Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews

To become a complainer can also mean becoming the object of other people's complaints.7 Members of her department submitted an informal complaint to Human Resources identifying her as a bully. It should not surprise us that a "pushy minority" can morph into a bully. Bullying often works to create a narrative about a person as behind whatever is deemed problematic. She was a new head of department; she was trying to make changes to the culture of that department.

Besides, I told him, as Hemingway once wrote about good stories, "They are truer than if they had really happened.

There's a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they're in control. They do things they're not supposed to do and become people they weren't meant to be. When I reach that place, it's magic. It's a kind of rapture.

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.