Quotes About Narrative

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

There are some stories that you don't tell aloud, that you make up and tell silently to yourself.

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?

Dunyazad was right about Princess Budur- and all the rest of those story women who dress up as men and do man things perfectly well. One thing those tales are saying underneath is that women aren't inferior. They're equal to men.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that.

Everything beautiful has a story it

The best fiction is history

We are historical beings, unable to describe ourselves without describing ourselves in space and time.

The nation must achieve a coherent and widely accepted national narrative. Here language is front and center. ... Narratives start with words and are reinforced by symbols. ... Narratives are transported through education.

How we remember the past constrains the possibilities we consider for the future.

He kept repeating the story, adjusting it a touch each time, as if he were a tailor working on a jacket, taking in a bit of fabric here, letting out a seam there, then stepping back to consider what fit what best.

History matters. Facts matter. But above all else, context matters. Changing history and facts—canceling them as if they did not exist or changing them to suit some twenty-first-century weaponized truism is another form of propaganda and lie.

All we women have to give you is memory. Everything we washed is there. Everything we cooked. Everything we said. What we felt we might keep to ourselves, unless someone wrote it down.

Susan Wise Bauer

This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember?