Quotes About Narrative

Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.

I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

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

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

It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

It's hard to tell sometimes if Etheny's stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

People don't remember lessons. They remember stories.

Stories are invented as you go along...

Every song is a story unfolding.

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.