Quotes About Narrative

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

I should have kept him to the end," said Mrs. Oliver. "In a book, I mean," she added apologetically. "Real life's a bit different," said Battle. "I know," said Mrs. Oliver. "Badly constructed.

It had to come about exactly the way things happened in books.

Only much later did I understand that this raw material is the very marrow of literature, and that, from it, it's possible to create an interior narrative. I say "interior" because at that time chronicles were considered to be where truth was to be found. "Interior" expression had not yet been born.

We always know how the story ends. What we don't know is what happens along the way.

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Aristotle is often quoted as saying that a story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's true, but I don't think that's the whole story. After all, a dead cat has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

History is just one fucking thing after another.

We have to tell stories to unriddle the world

How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The text's construction of an ailment as the product of a conflict with supernatural beings...renarrates the suffer's experience in martial and heroic terms. If recited to victims of the illness, the charm had the potential to help them renegotiate their self-perception.

Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?

The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.

I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but above all in which the connection between the distinctively narrative element in human life and the character of the vices comes to the forefront of consciousness and not only in biblical terms.

the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what are plainly the disjointed parts of some possible narrative.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.