Quotes About Narrative

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.

A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all the time in their own way by throwing a load of statistics at you when things don't quite follow and then saying, 'So therefore blah,' and you believe that 'blah' thing because of the confusion that's come before.

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

Every song in 'Groundhog Day' works to forward the story in a chronological, narrative sense, to illuminate the state of mind of the person singing it and comment on the world.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

'Joji' is a special film, the story will keep audiences hooked till the end.

A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

What is wrong is wrong but there has to be a layered narrative. And that is what makes 'Mahabharat' timeless. People find its characters realistic. They could see their reflection in people even today.

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story which has to do with the second half of your life, which can be told through Hedwig's voice because she's older. If the timeline is consistent, she's as old as me.

I've grown as a storyteller, and my comedic timing has gotten better.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.