Quotes About Narrative

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

Once upon a time, is how stories begin...

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.

The story becomes clearer with time.

It's my time to scare you, it's time for scary story.