Quotes About Narrative

Here, in the camp, she could tell any old story, these people would have no choice but to believe her. That is not to say that refugee women like her lie, merely that they are uprooted. Their stories barely mean anything even to themselves now. No one listens to them, which is almost like not existing at all.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

And now, if you have anything more to ask, I can't think how you can manage it, for I've never heard anyone tell more of the story of the world. Make what use of it you can.

The reader doesn't want to see your chains and pulleys, he just wants the ride.

All of these early exposures to offstage happenings contribute to the belief that stories are told. They can be a liability to writers later in life because the writer has to change his mind-set from telling what happened somewhere else to creating an experience for the reader by showing what happened. Twentieth

Answer me. Where does a Black woman go when she is me, trailed by myths that this country has invented about her? Where to go to, when all of you have been there already, and claimed the turf as your own and you watch the rest of us shipwrecked by circumstance and color, looking. Waiting. Needing.

I'm not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage point and you'll see that they stretch endlessly back into the past and spread inexorably forward into the future. One is never quite able to say "That's that, then," and draw a line.

If you ask for a memory and they tell you a story, they're lying

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

He was always willing to be the text of his own oratory.

A novel is a mirror that strolls along a highway. Now it reflects the blue of the skies, now the mud puddles underfoot.

A good book is an event in my life.

None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

Nulle part autant qu'ici on ne constate aussi nettement l'étonnante différence qui peut exister entre les récits faits à la même heure d'un seul et même événe- ment par plusieurs observateurs.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!