Quotes About Narrative

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Did Revere make history or did Longfellow?

What matters the most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well. Be off now. The world awaits you

For each of us, life is a story...What matters most is that you live your own story to the fullest and that you tell it well.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.