Quotes About Narrative

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Perhaps robbing someone of his or her story is the greatest betrayal of all.

You may admire, even love those photographs, but you don't look at them and think What happened next? They have an immutable quality - that's their strength and power. But there's no question embedded in them. There's a question embedded in all your work, that sense of 'what happens next.

To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your early life, previous to our acquaintance; and then you requested a return of confidence from me.

Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.

She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you know and are getting to know better day by day, something is bound to happen. Characters should not, conversely, serve as pawns for some plot you've dreamed up. Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story.