Quotes About Narrative

But we also need stories. Great stories.

Stories get remembered about 13 times better than statistics. Facts tell, but stories sell!

All true? I think autobiographers are big liars.

You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.

The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, but it is factual. Christianity has always been an evolving story. It was never, even in the New Testament, a finished story.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

It is safe to say that the knowledge men can acquire of women, even as they have been and are—never mind what they could be—is wretchedly incomplete and superficial, and that it always will be so until women themselves have told all that they have to tell.

As my exciting story opens, I am being punched in the stomach. But I guess a lot of stories start that way.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

a good story was frequently superior to the truth?

My people say Gaea likes a good story, and she likes great heroes. Are you a hero?

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and

The writer chooses details in accord with the narrative voice most fit to tell the story, sensing how much is needed and what might need to be cut.

I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.

It's one of those stories that needs tellin' because it's heavy," Tom said. "Tellin' it makes it easier to carry.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

History is what we choose to remember.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don't you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.