Quotes About Narrative

This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending.

Black Hawk was taken on a tour of cities after his capture. I read his autobiography as soon as I could. And I remembered the line he said: "How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

It's not my job to make readers know what's a narrative voice and not the private view of the author," and that alone made me glad I had come.

This is not the story of my marriage. I cannot tell that story: I cannot take hold of, or lay out for anyone, the many swamps and grasses and pockets of fresh air and dank air that have gone over us.

It's not my job to make readers know what's a narrative voice and not the private view of the author

Pam era convinta che fosse impossibile raccontare qualcosa in maniera fedele. Fragili parole sincere cadevano a casaccio sopra l'ampia distesa del tessuto di una vita, con tutti i suoi nodi e irregolarità.

But we are all mythologies

I could not believe how Black Hawk was taken on a tour of cities after his capture. I read his autobiography as soon as I could. And I remembered the line he said: "How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

There was nothing different about the story – except that it was his.

History, people like to say, is written by the winners. The truth is, some of the most profound works on the past were written by those who considered themselves history's losers.

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.

Pero la famosa Leyenda Negra alimentada por los enemigos exteriores de España —que acabaría peleando sola contra casi la totalidad del mundo— nos colocó el sambenito de la exclusiva.

El destino, es decir, lo que sucede y creemos que tenía que suceder, es como un tejido. Sólo que no lo hilan o tejen, como parecían creer los antiguos, unas cuantas divinidades hacendosas como las Parcas, sino que todos contribuimos a tejerlo. En este sentido es verdadero que todos hacemos la historia y todos hacemos la biografía. El destino es un poco como la biografía que, entre nosotros y los demás, hacemos de nosotros mismos.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it's everything.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.

valuation that is not backed up by a story is both soulless and untrustworthy and that we remember stories better than spreadsheets.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Quiero que en las palabras que escribes haya algo que me pertenezca. No te estoy dictando un cuenticulario de nimiedades. Historias de entretén-y-miento.