Quotes About Narrative

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

Michael B. Oren

The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the first storyteller, having told the first story, fell silent, somebody sitting there by the fire said, Then what happened? and the Age of Sequels began.

For the only true sequel is the one that flickers briefly into being in your mind, O my friend by the fireside, in the moments after you read the last paragraph and lay the book down.

Sorrow, irritation, doubt, anxiety, or any other turbulent emotion that might otherwise keep her from sleeping, eating, or, in extreme cases, speaking coherently or getting out of bed, would disappear almost completely when she was in the act of telling a story.

stories make life so much better.

If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die.

From stockbrokers to soccer moms, there are twelve minds on the jury and they've all been marinated in different life experiences. You have to tell them all the same story. And you only get one chance. That's the trick. Twelve minds, one story. It's got to be a story that speaks to each of them.

I must be able to tell more than what happened. I must tell why. It's breadth and depth again—the ol' B and D—and I am used to that.

True stories evolve as details are remembered and others are forgotten. A false story, one that has been rehearsed in the mind, usually remains constant.

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.

The episode related here is based on a true story.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

Esto, piensa Virginia, es el autentico logro; lo que sobrevivirá después de que se haya marchitado el oropel de los experimentos narrativos

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

You must live your story.

But that's another story and shall be told another time

Pero esa es otra historia y debe ser contada en otra ocasión.

Tutto ciò che accade tu lo scrivi disse. Tutto ciò che io scrive, accade fu la risposta.

Ama bu baÅŸka bir öyküdür, baÅŸka bir zaman anlat?lmal?.

even something long past could be born again if it occurred in a story