Quotes About Narrative

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

But that's one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.