Quotes About Narrative

I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.