Quotes About Narrative

opinion, we needed to get our side of the story out.

This sort of bullying isn't just present at the universities. It has taken over the media wholesale. For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being. The same is eminently true in Hollywood, where moral narrative is the heart of the business.

Tenements were a screenwriter's dream—lively, interesting places that lent themselves to narrative.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

He infused his ceiling fresco with Kabbalistic images that reflected the Kabbalistic pavement design below. He linked the Jewish ancestral tree to Jesus. He connected pagan philosophy and design with Judaism and Christianity. He joined his love of male beauty to his love of God. He narrated the entire story of the universe, beginning with creation, in a way that makes us realize humanity's common ancestry.

Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.

The account of how Franklin's Autobiography came to be written and of the adventures of the original manuscript forms in itself an interesting story. The Autobiography is Franklin's longest work, and yet it is only a fragment. The first part, written as a letter to his son, William Franklin, was not intended for publication; and the composition is more informal and the narrative more personal than in the second part, from 1730 on, which was written with a view to publication.

element that makes the record real and brings the story

Ich bin eben kein Erzähler wie du.

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the varicose veins that came from two pregnancies, only one of them fulfilled, she thinks the inside of her body must tell a story like a tree. Were she to break open a bone, perhaps it would look like the inside of a coffee mug - riddled with lines, stained with brown blotches.

All stories are in conversation with other stories. —Neil Gaiman

A-B-D-C-E structure of a story, an acronym for Action-Background-Development-Conflict-Ending.

Don't forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and cityscapes and exquisitely crafted metaphors works in service of story, contributing to the momentum that will propel your readers forward.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called "Once upon a time" in historicism's bordello.

History breaks down in images not into stories.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.