Quotes About Narrative

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.