Quotes About Narrative

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

Ideas will not save us, he thought. Not right or wrong not peace or retribution. Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can ever save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Rewrite your tale of woe as a tale of wow

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battle and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

History has no meaning.

But if you could tell science like a story, I'd pay attention." -Lucy

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

No story was just a story, though. It was a suitcase stuffed with secrets.

But we're all characters in our own stories, Iggy.

Girl next to me at the baggage counter said she wrote her way to liberation. How did you handle first person narrative, I asked her. And said she knew the hole of depression, had been there. But I am out now, I escaped, I told her. 'You will fall into it again,' she said. Already I was sliding.