Quotes About Narrative

narrative interpretation provides the groundwork for a more participatory understanding of biblical interpretation that is shared by many Christian groups globally.

Tonight, I'm certainly going to tell you a story, but 'tis a story with a difference because, unlike virtually every other tale I tell-in this case, I was there. And yet I know that although I was there, and I saw people who were real, they have since become somewhat imagined-because I now view them through my memory. That's something every human being does-but storytellers live by it.

The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as you listen to me now, as you have always listened to me, is to know this: what I can believe, you can believe. And the way we all see our story-not just as Irish people but as flesh and blood individuals and not the way people tell us to see it-that's what we own, no matter who we are and where we come from.

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Fear begets fiction and fiction gives a shape to fear

If you don't tell your story, somebody else will.

A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

Or in the words of the famous British historian Arnold Toynbee, "History is just one damn thing after another.

For a population 98 percent illiterate, there is, however, an enormous amount of literature written about them.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

On George Eliot's narrative strategy) It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.

If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell

2) Geht man von einer Geschichte aus, muss sie zu Ende gedacht werden. (3) Eine Geschichte ist dann zu Ende gedacht, wenn sie ihre schlimmstmögliche Wendung genommen hat. (4) Die schlimmstmögliche Wendung ist nicht vorhersehbar. Sie tritt durch Zufall ein.