Quotes About Narrative

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.

The only aspect I'd probably change in some of my films is the death of the heroine. I wish I'd kept some of them alive.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.

I am now confident about attempting a Hindi film. I believe if you have a good story to tell, audiences will watch it.

Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.

Framing the truth at the deepest moral level matters.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Look at him! He has begun a story without a beginning, and it will never have any end.

He heard me through in silence, for it was a rule with him never to interrupt a narrator. He used to say, You will generally get at more, and in a better fashion, if you let any narrative take its own devious course, without the interruption of requested explanations. By the time it is over, you will find the questions you wanted to ask mostly vanished.

wordy descriptions of the journey, which you can get from Parkman or Gregg if you want them – or from volume

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Who controls the past controls the future.

El pasado es únicamente lo que digan los testimonios escritos y la memoria humana.

If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole.

That is invariably the case in the East; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.