Quotes About Narrative

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.

i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story.

Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

This isn't a script, Julian says. It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.

When did people start identifying so relentlessly with victims, and when did the victim's worldview become the lens through which we began to look at everything?

victim/hero (they're the same thing now for millennials)

The angry and funny and outspoken pop star Morrissey is an anomaly, calling out contradictions and hypocrisies in society yet he always seems to be chastised by the press and on social media because he's speaking honestly and doesn't buy into the accepted narrative of the Applebee's Gay.)

If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet.

Sometimes, we become so familiar with the primal sacred story of the Bible that we need some fresh takes on it, telling us the same thing in different ways, or giving us some new vantage points to see what was always there, things we'd missed before.