Quotes About Narrative

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Everyone's got a different story.

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.