Quotes About Narrative

failure is only failure if it happens in the last chapter. Otherwise, it's a plot twist.

The artwork is just the settings, or the other characters. You have to make the plot yourself.

he wondered if it was even possible to have happiness in a story, when one was required to imagine both a beginning and an end.

The function of the first draft is to help you figure out your story. The function of every draft after that is to figure out the most dramatic way to tell that story.

The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.

It's YOUR story, kid. You can color it any way you want.

The military and the politicians have been the same people for all but the most recent part of human history, and we know that the victor writes the history books.

Why do stories persuade? There are several explanations: First, people deduce a story's logic by themselves. We know from research and common sense that self-discovery is much more powerful than having people talk at you.

A borrowed signature story can also come from news accounts, historical events, biographies, novels, fables, TV shows or movies. Whatever the source, the stories must communicate the strategic message in an intriguing, involving and authentic way.

If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you are told that the king died and that the queen then died of grief, that is a story.

This book shows how to apply the power of storytelling to strategic messaging in the age of social media.

First, recognize that a set of facts can guide and inspire only if it is heard and gains buy-in—but that is rarely the case. Second, explore how stories can accomplish or help to accomplish the same objective. Sometimes, a set of facts can be turned into a story by providing a context and more information.

Ono što je jednom ispri?ano ne može nikada više da se ponovi. Ono što se jednom desilo, desilo se zauvek.

U nekom trenutku sve pri?e postaju iste, kaže pripoveda?, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripoveda?, da se onaj koj sluša ili ?ita pri?u navede na pomisao da je pri?a koju upravo sluša ili ?ita ipak druga?ija od ostalih. Pripovedanje je, dakle, zavaravanje, kaže pripoveda?, pri?a je, zna?i, laž. (Pripovedanje i pri?a)

Pri?am sve ovo samo zato što verujem da se jednostavne stvari (smrt) mogu poništiti složenim strukturama (pripovedanje), iako je odavno trebalo da je jednostavnost zamršenija od svake složenosti.

Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place.

enough Freudian psychoanalysis to know that we never really overcome the damage they do to us when we are small. The baggage we take with us to the grave is the same baggage our parents hand us just after we are born. This was the narrative

Natural history is not about producing fables.

I don't know if history has a sense of justice. But it certainly has a sense of humor.

The Democrats' website is accurate when it says that the Democratic efforts for civil rights "began" with Truman in 1946, for there certainly is much about civil rights that they would rather not talk about before that time.

You're a writer. Make it up.

I look around at all these teachers, that fed us a narrative that we could be whatever we wanted to be, that we could achieve whatever we dreamed of. That was a load of nonsense. Why didn't they teach us how to cope with heartbreak and disillusionment rather than Pythagoras and the periodic table?

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.