Quotes About Narrative

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

fama de tortuoso.

Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer. I find it all remarkably useless.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

A veces, para exorcizar los demonios de un recuerdo es necesario contarlo como un cuento

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

Mi vida se hace al contarla y mi memoria se fija con la escritura; lo que no pongo en palabras sobre papel, lo borra el tiempo.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

Word by word I have created the person I am and the invented country in which I live.

cada cual es libre de narrar su vida como mejor le plazca.

I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.

sin sufrimiento, no hay historia

Não há nada tão insatisfatório como um fim com pontas soltas, essa tendência moderna de deixar os livros a meio.

She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is

She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is how we tell it, so why would she jot down trivia?

Todos somos héroes de nuestra propia historia.

El viaje de la vida se hace de largos trechos tediosos, paso a paso, día a día, sin que suceda nada impactante, pero la memoria se hace con los acontecimientos inesperados que marcan el trayecto. Esos son los que vale la pena narrar.

Mi vida se hace al contarla y mi memoria se fija con la escritura;

Para tí el lenguaje es un hilo inagotable que tejes como si la vida se hiciera al contarla.

Mucho se me olvida o se me tuerce, no retengo lugares, fechas ni nombres, en cambio jamás se me escapa una buena historia.

No me explico qué atrajo a Willie, que tiene un pasado de mujeres altas y rubias, a mí me atrajo su historia.

Casi todas las vidas se parecen y pueden contarse en el tono con que se lee la guía de teléfonos, a menos que uno decida ponerle énfasis y color.

Una fábula bien contada suele tener un poderoso efecto afrodisiaco.