Quotes About Narrative

People in tales don't know, always. But there they are.

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I'm not a brain surgeon, I'm not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that's a pretty important task.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.