Quotes About Narrative

To be heartbroken means to have a story

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the end.

This moment will just be another story someday.

there is a French version of the story, and a true one.

Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father)

In high school, American history had been a happy story; now Chihani told them the sad one.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

That's how it is with werewolves. You have something, then you just have the story of it.

Isn't that what fairy tales are, anyway? What we tell ourselves about ourselves, just in an indirect way, with elves and magic and monsters to make it all safe?

It's from George Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher from the first part of the twentieth century. He also famously said that history is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.