Quotes About Narrative

Julián me había dicho alguna vez que un relato es una carta que el autor se escribe a sí mismo para contarse cosas que de otro modo no podría averiguar. Hacía tiempo que Julián se preguntaba si había perdido la razón. ¿Sabe el loco que está loco?

Julián me había dicho alguna vez que un relato era una carta que el autor se escribe a sí mismo para contarse cosas que de otro modo no podría averiguar.

NEVER BEFORE HAD I FELT TRAPPED, SEDUCED, AND CAUGHT UP in a story," Clara explained

Page after page I let the spell of the story and its world take me over, until the breath of dawn touched my window and my tired eyes slid over the last page. I lay in the bluish half-light with the book on my chest and listened to the murmur of the sleeping city. My eyes began to close, but I resisted. I did not want to lose the story's spell or bid farewell to its characters yet.

could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.

Martín, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma. -Andreas Corelli

And start thinking about another of these stories for me. I'll give you a week for the next one. But don't fall asleep. And let's see if we can have a lower body count this time—today's readers like a slushy ending in which the greatness of the human spirit triumphs over adversity, that sort of rubbish.

Tôi có th? k? l?i cho em ná»™i dung câu chuy?n, nhÆ°ng làm v?y cÅ©ng ch?ng khác gì mô t? toà thánh ???ng r?ng nó là má»™t ch?ng Ä'á mà trên cùng là chóp nh?n v?y.

They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is what any of the great religious texts teach us.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they're not telling the whole story.

And along the way read the Bible from start to finish. It's one of the greatest stories ever told. Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives of it.

Tutto è racconto (...). Quello che crediamo, quello che conosciamo, quello che ricordiamo e perfino quello che sogniamo. Tutto è racconto, narrazione, una sequenza di eventi e personaggi che comunicano un contenuto emotivo. Un atto di fede è un atto di accettazione, accettazione di una storia che viene raccontata. Accettiamo come vero solo ciò che può essere narrato.

En aquellos días aprendí que nada da más miedo que un héroe que vive para contarlo, para contar lo que todos los que cayeron a su lado no podrán contar jamás

I could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.

Everyday I became more convinced that good literature has little or nothing to do with trivial fancies such as "inspiration" or "having something to tell" and more with the engineering of language, with the architecture of narrative , with the painting of texture, with the timrbres and colors of the staging. With the cinematography of words, and the music that can be produced by an orchestra of ideas

What I don't understand is why, instead of talking so much about this story, you don't just get on and write it.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who has lived to tell his story, to tell what all who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

Cuéntale al mundo nuestras historias y jamás olvides que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.

Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course.

Men, it seemed to me in those days, were uniquely honored by the stories that erupted in their lives, whereas women were more likely to be smothered by theirs.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.