Quotes About Narrative

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time" . . . they're lying

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

A hundred and fifty years after Oatman's return, writers—amateur and professional, religious and scholarly—continue to rework it, invariably reflecting their own cultural fantasies as vividly as Oatman's particular experience.

In the end we all have stories.

Ecrire ce n'est pas raconter des histoires. C'est le contraire de raconter des histoires. C'est raconter tout à la fois. C'est raconter une histoire et l'absence de cette histoire. C'est raconter une histoire qui en passe par son absence. Lol V. Stein est détruite par le bal de S. Thala. Lol V. Stein est bâtie par le bal de S. Thala.

To level the terrain, to dig down into it, to open the tombs wherein Lol is feigning death, seems to me fairer - given the necessity to fill in the missing links of Lol Stein's story - than to fabricate mountains, create obstacles, rely on chance. And, knowing this woman, I believe she would prefer that I compensate in this way for the lack of cold, hard facts about her life.