Quotes About Narrative

Por eso se fija tanto en el recuerdo, por eso se pueden contar tan bien las catástrofes.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

If this was another kind of story, I'd tell you about the sea

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all.

dude never had much luck with the females (how very un-Dominican of him).

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

He wonders if this is a lack within himself. Is there a part of the brain from which love comes that in his case has drastically malfunctioned? The world is awash in love—on the radio, in movies, in the pages of novels. Romantic love is the common cultural narrative, yet he seems immune to it. Thus, though he has yet to taste the pain that comes with love, he has experienced pain of a different, related sort: the fear of facing a life without it.

The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

So, at the last, a story.

The story was never the the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

But as with all such occurrences—those destined to be recounted not only in the immediate aftermath but for many years to come—time seemed compressed; it is a common error of memory to impose upon such events the coherence of a concentrated narrative, beginning with the assignment of a specific interval of time. That season. That year.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Luke had a theological reason for this, for in his view the story he was telling shall not come to an end before the end of all history.

El libro de ensayos sobre la narrativa de Juan García Ponce que venía escribiendo hacía casi un año

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

A gifted storyteller should be able to tell their stories in different genres, mediums, and platforms. The art of storytelling is the same since civilization began. Only the way of telling it has changed because of technology. - Kailin Gow on Storytelling

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

She learned more about this part of the world from his retelling than from her own living

Stories, Vishnu, are like snarled threads, each connected with the other, and it's very tempting to want to tell them all at once. But time, linear, progressive, maddening time, won't let me.

History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren't there, which may be the same thing.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.