Quotes About Narrative

when the victors rewrite history, it's just another kind of war, waged after the battlefield killing is done to murder the memory of the defeated.

We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.

a good story can heal. I

Race, it turns out, is above all a politically useful fiction.

Now he wanted that which had always been my own—my story. Tell

Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies. Later

He, too, wanted to tell the story of our adventure in his own way. Praise

You're a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." "Beautiful and full of monsters?" "All the best stories are.

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

And the space where his legend was gathering up words grew larger. Because this story was not over yet.

the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. He listened the way a cactus drinks rain. In

He couldn't remember the other monks' names, or even the prayers that had been his vocation for decades, but the stories poured from him, and Lazlo listened. He listened the way a cactus drinks rain

How does it happen, that the events of a day, or a night - or a life - are translated into story? There is a gap in between, where awe has carved a space that words have yet to fill.

As if this whole place were a story about her.

A tale is a funny thing, and even when it's your own and you have a quill in your hand you must be careful where you touch it.

I think that in general -- well, at least it's true for me -- you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.

But all stories are made up," I offered. "All telling is retelling, and therefore it is fiction. Everybody knows that.

No one is ever the villain of their own story.

Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story." "Every story is a love story.

Cordelia had thought a tattoo would be rather more like their Marks, but it reminded her of something else instead. It was ink, the way books and poems were made of ink, telling a permanent story.

In those days, when Indians killed whites, it was a "massacre"; it was a "battle" when whites killed Indians.

Simultaneously, an Auburn banker named Charles P. Wood prepared a narrative of Tubman's war service, with an appendix of available documentation. Copies are still on file at the National Archives.

If in this narrative I have not yet paid Queen Sophia adequate consideration, particularly given the unrelenting domination the woman would soon claim over every single element of my life, I offer this simple yet honest explanation: for fifteen unbroken years, my mother had toiled to protect me from the woman. It is remarkable, as I reflect upon my childhood, how utterly unaware I was of this situation while it transpired, the truth coming to my notice only in despondent hindsight.