Quotes About Narrative

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

I don't even mind playing a bimbo or a silly girl, as long as it isn't stereotyped and there's a reason for that character to be part of the story.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

On our single sheet of foolscap we've got the Big Beats. Now what? Fill in the gaps. David Lean famously declared that a feature film should have seven or eight major sequences. That's a pretty good guideline for our play, our album, our State of the Union address.

A character's personality can change over the course of the chronicle, but for the most part the changes occur through roleplaying and not simply by changing the character sheet.

The Palestinians try hard to forget when they should remember. The Israelis try hard to remember when they should forget. The Palestinians refuse to be victims. The Israelis make sure that they remain the only victims.

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

For what is storytelling if not ideas brought full and whole to the inner eyes of those who listen?

Según el punto en que el narrador decide callar las historias tienen un final feliz o triste.

Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel . . . consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn't just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence." She smiled at Edith. "I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the

The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail.

We are looking for ways our stories fit together.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, "All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

stories must be told, if they are not told, they die. then we forget who we are and why we are here

All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

books The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and When the Heart Waits were narratives of my spiritual experience. I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus of Nazareth. I am a voice.

It's not meant to be a factual story, but it's still true.