Quotes About Narrative

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that's harmless, isn't it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it's just a word.

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.