Quotes About Narrative

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

All Stories are True.

the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Whatever happened, happened in exactly one way, and the investigator's job was to sift through often-conflicting bits and pieces to construct the one true story.

The past itself is not a narrative. In its entirety, it is as chaotic, uncoordinated, and complex as life. History is about making sense of that mess, finding or creating patterns and meanings and stories from the maelstrom.

History has a beginning in sources, but also in the gaps within and between sources.

Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

Aldred the weasel took up the tale.

Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

The elements align nicely with what we are learning about emotional trauma and the intricacies of our visceral nervous system. Breath control, rhythm, whole-body movement, narrative, social ties and cues—all of these are physical impulses that travel at the literal core of our being. Besides, he says, "people cannot rhythmically

You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon --for both sides." -Grand Lord Hilts

Ya no oigo mis voces, de modo que ando un poco perdido. Sospecho que sabrían contar mucho mejor esta historia.

Maybe your self-mythology is no different than any other mythology. It's a story that changes in the telling, evolving over time. Whatever resonates will stay, and what doesn't will fall away. To pick away at the literal truth is to miss the point of it, miss the joy of it. So go ahead and build your myth. Try to tell a good story about yourself that captures something true, whether or not the facts agree.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

Learning about the past liberates the learner from oppressions earlier constructions of the past have imposed upon them.

Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they're liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.

The indiscriminate aligning of narrative elements to natural phenomena led to the eventual discrediting of comparative mythology, not least when Andrew Lang, a critic of Max Müller, demonstrated that Müller himself was a solar myth.

the media had its narrative before it knew any of the facts

Brand decided Koestler's framework was a good metaphor for his own life—not a carefully plotted arc of ambition, or even a narrative, but rather doing one different thing after another, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time and which, hopefully, would evolve into something profound.