Quotes About Narrative

Gods are just stories now. Bar said that's all they really were anyway: stories to make sense of lives of those who wanted someone else to take charge of them, rather than cut their own way.

The best storytellers eliminate photographs before they even begin shooting. They pre-edit. They determine what isn't worth their effort to free up their time for the things that may prove to be remarkable.

Life happens between frames. If you don't put down the camera to experience your subject, how can you bring anything uniquely personal to the story? Great photography is just great storytelling. Great storytelling evolves from a life well lived. Live first.

And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.

They are programming people," Harris says. "There's always this narrative that technology's neutral. And it's up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true—" "Technology is not neutral?" Cooper interrupts. "It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

Professional Goal: To craft well-written, narrative-driven stories that change the way people understand the world. Key Activities Supporting This Goal: • Research patiently and deeply. • Write carefully and with purpose.

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told….

There's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening.

Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be connected, if I am at all fundamentally right in what I am saying, then thinking in terms of stories must be shared by all mind or minds, whether ours or those of red wood forests and sea anemones. Credit Line: Vít Pokorný

A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

Stories are tricky things, aren't they?

L'amour, c'est un roman que quelqu'un écrit sur vous.

We are all telling the same story. When writing about race, there can perhaps be precious little wholly fresh revelation. As with writing about motherhood. It has been the same story for as long as anyone can remember.

What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.

Good stories teach!

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

Every fiction has its base in fact,

Every fiction has its base in fact," he tells her.

another chapter of the same old story, written, still, by someone else's invisible hand.