Quotes About Narrative

Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art

A storyteller's form of healing [is] being a counselor, and healing people with ideas, with stories and kind, loving guidance.

Me too. I agree fervently. Every film should definitely have a message. Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like Don't lose your ring.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

You are validating someone's life by telling their story. Even if it's a sad one.

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Life is a story. I wake up, it was a sacred dream.