Quotes About Narrative

Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about Zenia.

If it's only a story, it becomes less frightening. The

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What

Stories are no good, not even the short ones, because by the time you get to the second page he's forgotten the beginning. Where are we without our plots?

It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.

To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in, and another, for they are all part of the same garment — Tudor, Lancaster, York, Plantagenet.

There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

Fiction is empathy technology.

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.