Quotes About Narrative

Anlatt???m öykü gibi sürüyle öykü vard?r, dedi. Herhalde onu yanl?? deÄŸerlendiriyorsun. -Nedeni öykü deÄŸil, dedim, biraz klasik bile say?l?r bu öykü. Hafifçe alayl? gülümsedi... -Peki öyleyse? -Öyküyle ilgisi yok. Çok yorucu bir ÅŸey bu...ondan...

Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.

In queste carte l'arabesco del suo narrare non è formale ma somiglia ad una ricerca della penna intorno ad un punto piagato: come se egli cercasse continuamente di respingere qualche cosa di forza pari alla repugnanza che gli ispira.

Life is a series of collisions, for fucksake. It's not a narrative experience.

A story, no matter how factually true, is still just a story.

Cualquiera que sea el enfoque que elijamos—el de la inocencia o el de la culpabilidad de alguien—éste determinará el drama que se desarrolle en nuestras vidas y el papel que desempeñemos en él.

The convention that there were two sides to every story eliminated the third and fourth and fifth sides. Even dividing the past two and a half million years into the "Neolithic" (the new stone age) and the "Paleolithic" (the old stone age) was reductionist. "Write this down," he said. "Dichotomies are for idiots.

All lives are stories, and history is made of stories.

History could make a stone weep.

I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about what is meaningful to you and you have to make a good-faith effort to speak from the integrity of your own deep experience.... People don't think about assessing what is the deepest narrative for them. I think that that's about 99 percent of the subject of literature.... Write from it.

I write a book because there is a voice in my mind, a burden of narrative. Of course I am pleased that these voices interest other people, too. When I write I am always aware that perception is beautiful, and that to be human is a very high and very complicated privilege. I want my fiction to be true, and to me these are very essential truths.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you were listening you become three people. There is an incredible fusion: you become the storyteller, the protagonist, and you remember yourself listening to the story.

Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant territories where earlier and similar stories had been passed on in Arabic and Persian and Chinese and Sanskrit.

Aarne-Thompson-Uther index

The Other Worlds which fairy tales explore open a way for writers and storytellers to speak in Other terms, especially when the native inhabitants of the imaginary places do not belong to an established living faith and therefore do not command belief or repudiation. The tongue can be very free when it is speaking outside the jurisdiction of religion.

what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.

Eso era la historia, una rama de la fabulación que pretendía ser ciencia.

Le raccontai tutta la mia vita, non quella passata ma quella che avrei vissuto in futuro.

elegidos y dosificados según leyes precisas por la inteligencia del creador, alcanzan la vida propia de una verdad positiva. La supuesta frialdad flaubertiana para narrar las venturas y desventuras de los personajes era la actitud con que Achille-Cléophas examinaba, recetaba, amputaba, curaba o declaraba perdidos a sus pacientes. Pero

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

What is memory but a story about how we have lived?

History is made by the winners... and written by those with the loudest voices...

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.