Quotes About Narrative

The development of relationship creates plot.

I'm not suggesting that you want to be an author who tells a story in order to teach a moral or deliver a message. If you have a message, as Samuel Goldwyn said, send a telegram.

Who knows how much of our stories are true?

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. Risk freeing someone else.

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

A story does not need to be hot. Stories are usually about a modest salvation.

There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.

embroidering the account, and decided it offered

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all.

Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

Let me try to tell my stories,' Marius said. 'Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

I don't know that I have all the answers," I said. "But I have a story to tell.

History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire—a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a story is worth a thousand assurances.

There are six types of stories that will serve you well in your efforts to influence others. 1. "Who I Am" Stories 2. "Why I Am Here" Stories 3. "The Vision" Story 4. "Teaching" Stories 5. "Values-in-Action" Stories 6. "I Know What You Are Thinking

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class.

Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies? Yeah, but that's movies, Darcy groaned. Books are above all that!

And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.

It perplexes me how many people write books where everyone comes from the same basic set of backgrounds—middle class, white, straight, etc. It's like writing a book set in a world without coincidences, accidents, and colors. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? It reduces drama and conflicts and narrows the possible variety of points of view. And really, the whole magic of books is to show us the world through someone else's eyes. Experiencing the Other is what novels are for.

We're all made stories.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

Anatomy of a Movement Senator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: (1) A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we're trying to build. (2) A connection between and among the leader and the tribe. (3) Something to do - the fewer limits the better. Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.