Quotes About Narrative

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

I was one of the first guys to talk about their characters in the third-person, and I think the character of the Ultimate Warrior certainly is a legend.

Some of the most exciting moments in 'Star Wars' are when you're cutting between stories and you're building this momentum.

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

Wars break things; they break stories.

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Your life is not a tragedy. It's history, and it's yours.

There's nothing 'just' about stories. Stories are the most real.

Everyone lies, everyone leaves something out of the narrative.

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

But those were only the headlines. The more important stories lay deep inside... p 292

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

You are the writer of your own life.

The Cubs are a major league baseball team based in Chicago. Apparently, the team was once cursed by a goat and is doomed now to never win the World Series. The 71 seats [auctioned by the Chicago Board of Exchange] are adjacent to the Cubs' dugout on the third-base line. This is an unnecessary detail needed to give color to what would otherwise be a dull and uninspiring narrative.

War was a sorrier business than storybooks told.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

A novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Smith, parts of your story don't match up with what we found

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.