Quotes About Narrative

The thing about perspective is: something happens. it means nothing. we make up a story about what it means based on what we feel. this story becomes our truth. this story creates our reality, our world, what is possible and what is not.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

And fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.

Once upon a time! What kind of talk is that?

fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. I

If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all the story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

The words become poetry that no one minds, because no one has thought to call it that. Time is there. Love is there. Story is there.

this grand and cacophonous chorus began when our primal ancestors told stories to themselves about the animals that they killed for food and about the supernatural world to which the animals seemed to go when they died.

MOYERS: But that's not the Christian idea of creation

the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear;

No quiero aburrirlos demasiado con lo que me ocurrió personalmente

listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres contaban.

Even people who were not there remembered vividly exactly what happened next.

It is well known, that when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

The second is the military narrative of the battles on Long Island and Manhattan, where the British army and navy delivered a series of devastating defeats to an American army of amateurs, but missed whatever chance existed to end it all. The focal point of this story is the Continental Army, and the major actors are George Washington, Nathanael Greene, and the British brothers Richard and William Howe.

History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions.

When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. … The story is our lives.

Why do you write strong female characters? Because you're still asking me that question.