Quotes About Narrative

La historia nunca es espontánea. Incluso, rara vez es una cadena de eventos

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

To relieve ourselves of open-ended narrative, we read into the winter stars all evening. There are just stars and stars and stars.

My [art]work attempts to recapture a history never written or narrated visually before. I reaffirm my identity as a Mexica-Tejana and assert a new system of existence through visual manifestations of the oral history, myths, legends, and more of the borderlands.

All would say that my tongue tells tales and for a greater man

I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: "Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for?" And the wolf had replied: "The truth helps me tell you better lies.

The thing about this city," Andray said. "It knows how to tell a beautiful story. It truly does. But if you're looking for a happy ending, you better be lookin' somewhere else.

But now I believe the book had its own story, a story it was writing the whole time. We were only characters in it, with no more choice than characters in a novel.

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

He prefers his adventures second hand.

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

he's a story i want to know from page one

When engaging youth with the Bible-as-story, we must be wary of our impulse to "clarify" what's happening in a given narrative, to explain "what John is getting at" or "what Matthew is trying to say" or "what Paul really means here."13 I've been guilty of this more times than I care to admit, and I'm not alone.

The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories come first.

The youth-pastor-as-bard is charged with expressing the language, narrative, and culture of the kingdom to listeners who think they already know what the kingdom is all about. For the leader among quasi-believers who are bored and mostly apathetic, who think they know all about "God and stuff," the emphasis is on story.

Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring. —ATTRIBUTED TO COLUMBA OF IONA SIXTH CENTURY A

Somehow the church has forgotten what it knew for so long: story goes beyond simply illustrating some spiritual point or other; it gives form to content; it incarnates meaning.

let's get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less "lies." It's the world we Christians inhabit as "people of the Book." We are story people. All