Quotes About Narrative

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. WYSIATI

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

Wir sind immer in Geschichten

Stories within stories within stories. You never know where one ends and another begins! In truth, they all flow into one another. It's only in books that they're clearly divided.

Erzählen, das bedeutet einen Bogen spannen, wo zunächst keiner ist, den Entwicklungen Struktur und Folgerichtigkeit gerade dort verleihen, wo die Wirklichkeit nichts davon bietet.

To be alive is to have a story to tell.

Muito recentemente é que nós estamos conquistando espaço para podermos contar a história segundo o nosso olhar, o olhar dos indígenas, ou seja, sob uma visão de mundo particular. Não se pode pensar que a nossa história segue o mesmo percurso da ocidental. E isso é um outro nó, que necessita ser desatado.

Il trattato di Versailles ha prodotto dei tedeschi vessati che hanno prodotto degli ebrei erranti che fabbricano dei palestinesi erranti che fabbricano delle vedove erranti incinte dei vendicatori di domani...

Éramos su cuentista, nos hemos convertido en su contable.

Eravamo il suo narratore, siamo diventati il suo contabile. «Se è così, allora stasera niente tivù!» Eh! Sì... Sì... La televisione elevata alla dignità di ricompensa... E, come corollario, la lettura relegata al rango di courvé. È nostra, questa gran trovata...

Celui-là sent la mangue. Encore une histoire avec plus de noyau que de chair.

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, "how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

There was a time with novelists wrote narrative and journalists were content to report facts. And the facts are quite simple. There exists in the world today an organize force that seeks to weaken or even destroy the West through acts of indiscriminate violence. This force is part of a broader radical movement to impose sharia law and restore the Islamic Caliphate. And no amount of wishful thinking will make it go away. - Adrian Carter

There was a time when novelists wrote narrative and journalists were content to report facts.

Invent a past for the present.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

Istoriju pišu pobednici. Predanja ispreda puk. Književnici fantaziraju. Izvesna je samo smrt.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.