Quotes About Narrative

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

Millennials can be very hardworking, but it's easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.

With 'Millennium,' you're not going to see the normal TV character developments that people might think 'Oh, the audience wants to see that.'

My story is one of millions, and the others aren't often told.

When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a heck of a thing to do, to try to write someone's story.

Cristiano Ronaldo has created his own story, and now I'm creating mine.

Everybody's got their own story. I'm just trying to add to mine. It's cool to be an inspiration to others.

I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.

The Loser proceeds to narrate the same story he tells in virtually every one of his plays and novels: a story of frustrated ambition and (incestuous) love, suicide, and the generally grotesque absurdity of existence. But

What we mean when speaking of myth in general is story, the ability of story to explain ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry—all very highly useful and informative in their own right—can't.

Here it is: there's only one story. There, I said it and I can't very well take it back. There is only one story. Ever. One. It's always been going on and it's everywhere around us and every story you've ever read or heard or watched is part of it.

History is story, too.

Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. We may, but the country of Novels, Etc., doesn't. In that faraway place, no character is created equal. One or two of them get all the breaks; the rest exist to get them to the finish line.

Those stories- myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature- are always with us. Always in us. We can draw upon them, tap into them, add to them whenever we want.

There is only one story.

More important, we're all capable of growth, development, and change. We can get better, although we sometimes fail to do so. To put this another way, we are all, each and every last one of us, the protagonist of our own story.

Different: no guilty party exists in the narrative (unless you count the author, who is present everywhere and nowhere).