Quotes About Narrative

Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who are dead can tell no tales. Those were things which are not told, but forgotten. Fore where they not forgotten, how could they ever be repeated?

Na?ini in oblike pripovedovanja se spreminjajo s ?asom in razmerami, potreba po pripovedi in pripovedovanju pa ostaja, pripoved te?e naprej in pripovedovanju ni konca. Tako je v?asih videti, kakor da ?loveštvo od prvega pobliska zavesti skozi stoletja pripoveduje samo sebi v milijon variantah vzporedno z dihanjem svojih plju? in z ritmom svojega utripa ves ?as isto pripoved.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.

Never let them stop you from telling the story you want to tell.

At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings .

All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.

To survive being a parent is to fictionalize memory - to constantly re-create and re-contextualize the past, to invent a narrative that makes sense of the bizarre distortions introduced into one's life under the strain of responsibility, obligation, and love.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?

as historias se cuentan a si mismas, no las cuenta uno

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.

El pasado es historia, y ¿qué es la historia salvo un relato hecho de aire que nos contamos a nosotros mismos?

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

Te comportas como si todo lo que hago yo fuese parte de la historia de tu vida.

Tú eres el personaje principal, yo soy un personaje secundario que no hace una sola aparición hasta que la historia ya ha pasado de su ecuador.

Pero entonces –porfía el muchacho alto–, si no es verdad que murió, si no es más que una historia, ¿cómo sabemos que hubo una tormenta? ¿Cómo sabemos que la tormenta no es también una historia? –Porque David acaba de decirlo. El carro, el desierto, la tormenta, todo eso lo dice David.

Writers like to believe they're in control of their material, but that's just a comforting lie. After more than twenty-five years of making my life as storyteller, it's become extremely -sometimes painfully- clear to me that I'm just a vehicle, a way for the story to get out into the world. But it's the story itself that does the telling.

From Obama's perspective, truth was what he said it was. The reason he despised Fox News, the nation's highest-rated cable news channel, was that Fox alone among the news networks evaluated the validity of the White House narrative. In fact, on more than a few occasions, Benghazi included, Fox's reporting showed the administration's account of events to be pure hogwash. That rankled, and a wounded Obama struck back.

Although immersed in leftism since childhood, he never left the shallow end of the pool. He proved so adept at breaking promises because he did not care deeply enough to keep them. What mattered more was that he be seen striking the right pose, finding the right groove, spinning the right narrative.

history becomes fiction in the…act of being written down

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Incomprehensibility, Kerouac suggests, is not a function of the text but of the reader's limited perception. Innovative narratives, he acknowledges, become comprehensible after their unfamiliar structures have been conventionalized over time.

We've got a long way to go," preambled Dean, "and so you must take every indulgence and deal with every single detail you can bring to mind—and still it won't all be told. Part 4 Chapter 4