Quotes About Narrative

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Your biography becomes your biology"—if

Stories are the medicine that fill in the gaps of the self and show us who we are. (p. 38)

Stories provide a map that can help navigate the bumps in the road. (p.32)

the story of Métis people choose to not speak openly about their ancestry may be the most common thread in Métis stories. (p. 32)

Her life in ink.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not. Shouldn't the storyteller believe it. The storyteller should tell it.

I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.

People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.

There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.

Every table has a story

everybody, every single person, has a story to tell. Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story. We might all think that we are unremarkable, that our lives are boring, just because we aren't doing ground-breaking things or making headlines or winning awards. But the truth is we all do something that is fascinating, that is brave, that is something we should proud of.

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it's the first time it's been told.

One man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.

Kad kažu da je nešto duga pri?a, ljudi obi?no žele re?i da je pri?a kratka, ali toliko glupa da ju se stide ispri?ati.

Every single ordinary person has an extra ordinary story

Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world's memory. The past is erased without stories.

Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man?

A chi servono le storie di un ennesimo ebreo? Servono a me. Senza storie non esiste nulla. Le storie sono la memoria del mondo. Senza storie il passato viene cancellato.

For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints.

For no matter what the factual data were, all the books written about Blacks by their conquerors reflected the conquerors viewpoints. Nothing else should have been expected.

We reshape the story even when we believe we are simply repeating it.