Quotes About Narrative

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

Refuse to write your life and you have no life.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?