Quotes About Narrative

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

All Stories are True.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.

The truth is not so good a story.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.