Quotes About Narrative

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction

All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I'll get on with my life.

When you understand, Brandy says, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, Brandy says, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.

That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.

La historia no es más que una sucesión de monstruos o de víctimas. O de testigos.

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.

If you were my student, I'd tell you to shift as needed between the three POVs. Not constantly, but as appropriate to control authority, intimacy, and pace.

By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right.

When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

Think of a story as a stream of information. At best it's an ever-changing series of rhythms. Now think of yourself, the writer, as a DJ mixing tracks.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

La única razón por la que preguntamos a la gente qué tal le ha ido el fin de semana es para poder contar cómo nos ha ido el nuestro.

Åžimdiden önce, ÅŸimdiden önce, ÅŸimdiden önceki her ÅŸey yan?mda ta??y?p durduÄŸum bir hikayeden ibaret. San?r?m bu durum dünyadaki herkes için geçerli. Benim yeni bir hikayeye ihtiyac?m var.

E há tantas coisas que eu quero mudar, mas não posso. Tudo está feito. Agora, tudo é apenas uma história.

Because everything up to now is a story. and everything after now is a story.

My purpose is to give people glorious stories to tell.

It hides the seams in narrative the way a strip of molding hides the junction where walls and floor meet. And it allows a person to think beyond each new drama, thus moving the story forward and allowing unresolved issues to pile up and increase tension.