Quotes About Narrative

Stephen Graham Jones

This is how stories end, with all these leftover characters, nothing left for them to do.

History has a clear and distinct voice, but it does not force itself upon us uninvited. History

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

My parents, like so many others in the darker nation, shared the family stories of achievement but omitted the details of racial slights and discrimination, as if the telling were subject to what the historian Jonathan Holloway describes as a "psychologically enduring editor's pencil." So for me, writing this book has been a journey of discovery

Bill Gates's story was never rags to riches, a Harvard friend once remarked, but riches to riches—though the initial affluence, embellished to include such fictions as a million-dollar trust fund, was now utterly insignificant.

Tell me your story and I will get back your life.

None of us are ordinary; we all have a story to tell.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Some of us don't like the way you've been telling it.

Someone tell the story, Someone sing the song. Every now and then the country Goes a little wrong. Every now and then A madman's bound to come along. Doesn't stop the story Story's pretty strong.

This tale is not true: you [Helen] did not even board the well-benched ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy.

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."

The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.

The best kinds of stories are made up out of little bits of truth and stretched into a pleasing shape.

Things live on a whole lot longer when they are living in story and memory." "Okay,

Comparison and Evaluation. Listen for excessive comparison and evaluation in the client's speech, as contrasted with description. The clinician can probe the strength of such patterns of fusion by asking the client to simply describe the troublesome situation and what it evokes without injecting evaluations. Clients with high levels of fusion may not be able respond at all or may quickly lapse, injecting personal evaluations into the ongoing narrative.

The only two groups left who tell stories chronologically—at least in American culture—are lawyers and six-year-olds.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.

There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

The narrative of, 'You won an award, so you're going to skyrocket' - it's very emotive language but not necessarily true. I've definitely got auditions I wouldn't have got before, but it's not like jobs get rained down on you.

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.