Quotes About Narrative

You need to be a good storyteller. When you're at a conference, you should empathize with the developer and tell them a story that they can believe in; that's what makes a talk entertaining. That's the difference between an average developer advocate and a good developer advocate. - Arun Gupta

Once you've got women and a border, a story can write itself. Even women on their own are enough. Women are stories in themselves, full of stirrings and whisperings that float on the wind, that bend with each blade of grass.

Kahani bewaqoof ghatna ke byore mein nahin hoti. Usse upajne wali nayi aur alag duniya mein hoti hai. Wah nahi gadhi, to kuch nahin. The story lies not in reportage of a stupid incident. But in the new and different world it gives rise to. If that is not constructed, it's nothing.

Everyone has a story, and I will be the author of mine.

Si trattava di trovare delle opere uniche di narrativa e salvarle, portandole in un luogo fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio.

That's where both the Fae and the dragons fail......."They are defined either by narrative or reality. They don't go beyond that. The only person who can ever set bounds on you should be yourself.

Stories are like that. They'll wait for you until you can come back to them.

Besides," Catherine said as she followed, "we're probably all doomed anyhow, so I might as well get the full story directly from the Storyteller." Irene had known she and Catherine had a lot in common.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

But the Troian gestes, as they felle,In Omer, or in Dares, or in Dite,Whoso that kan may rede hem as they write.

Whoso shal telle a tale after a man,He moot reherce as ny as evere he kanEverich a word, if it be in his charge,Al speke he never so rudeliche and large,Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe,Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

MARION: I'll tell you a story. DANTON: You might put your lips to better use.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

statistical analysis indicates that "virtually fifty percent of Mark's gospel is devoted to presenting Jesus' teaching…. Judged on his own terms, Mark has achieved an entirely appropriate balance between narrative and teaching."79

The Enlightenment sought to rid the world of myths, but the nation could not justify itself without them.

Of course we live in dreams and by dreams, and even in a disciplined spiritual life, in some ways especially there, it is hard to distinguish dream from reality. In ordinary human affairs humble common sense comes to one's aid. For most people common sense is moral sense. But you seem to have deliberately excluded this modest source of light. Ask yourself, what really happened between whom all those years ago? You've made it into a story, and stories are false.

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

It is necessary at this point to recount what actually occurred, as opposed to what was generally supposed to have occurred, on that terrible evening when Lucas killed a man.

Historians pick and choose and every one of them picks and chooses the same thing.

Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.

A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.