Quotes About Narrative

This isn't a thrift store… We're not selling them something less expensive, we're selling them something more special. We have to tell them the story of what we're showing them. And then we have to show them how they can be the new heroine in the story.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

Design Rule The Story Comes Later Do not spend a lot of time devising a story at the concept stage. This is a cardinal error frequently made by people who are more used to presentational media such as books and film. You must concentrate most of your efforts on the gameplay at this point. Types

Game worlds are much more than the sum of the pictures and sounds that portray them. A game world can have a culture, an aesthetic, a set of moral values,

Yeah, I wish we could skip this storyline crap," Cruz said. "Bor-ing.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Without imperfection [...] there would be no story.

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

I write from the worm's-eye point of view.

Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history

Hablar es recorrer un hilo. Escribir, en cambio, es poseerlo, devanarlo.

Je prends le livre ouvert à la pliure, je me remets à son rythme, à la respiration d'un autre qui raconte. Si moi aussi je suis un autre, c'est parce que les livres, plus que les années et les voyages, changent les hommes.

Parler c'est parcourir un fil. Écrire c'est au contraire le posséder, le démêler.

tragedy is partly a matter of where a story ends.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

An awfully beautiful story, but it isn't mine.

The point of dharma practice is not to try to live without any narrative. The point is to see how all narratives have a holographic nature. Because

True friendship and intimacy take shape only when we are present enough to experience more than just one narrative, as well as to participate in our shared human experiences. Suddenly

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.