Quotes About Narrative

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

I love a story that balances pace with detail.

I love all history because it's storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

My tale starts and ends with Hekla, and I will tell it as it happens, in the manner of the bards.

So here I am, she said dryly, scaring my two nieces to death with all the gruesome details I wanted to forget--and with a haunted dollhouse, so you tell me, up in the attic.

The difference with authentic leaders lies in the way they frame their stories.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

They had devised a simple story, with characters, with an objective, with a beginning, middle, and end.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story

La historia es enteramente verdadera, ya que me la he inventado yo de cabo a rabo.

Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

we prefer to erase the realities of slavery, expropriation, and colonialism from the history of capitalism, craving a nobler, cleaner capitalism.

Beginning, middle, and end; Act I, Act II, Act III. Set-Up, Confrontation, Resolution—these parts make up the whole. It is the relationship between these parts that determines the whole.

And another: perhaps a version of the waitress story: only I haven't got it here. Make it up. Naturalistic. Jewel prose. Make out little paragraphs of what happens to whom. Then think it clear. Write it.

think in chapters, stories, fight through to triumph

Elk begin is tenslotte niets meer dan een vervolg. en het boek der gebeurtenissen ligt altijd open in het midden.

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony—who tells the last story.

Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape...there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor

Marshall Hodgson, Rethinking World History

Hamid Dabashi, Iran: A People Interrupted