Quotes About Narrative

I didn't know it until the end. All stories worth telling are love stories.

Like my ancestors, I believe that stories can save us. Our stories are our greatest currency. What one person is willing to share with another is a test of intimacy, a gift that's given.

The storyteller is the survivor, after all.

For a moment in time she'd expected his narrative to end the way Cinderella's story had, and not the way a Greek myth would.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell it this time only becaude it forms a strand in the fabric of my story, and it wove itself into what came after.

A tale can start in many ways. Thus, it is many tales, and at the same time each of these is but one way of telling the same story.

When you felt sad or angry or hopeless, a story could help. A story could lead you into a different world for a while.

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It was a fairy tale, Hovick style, in which drama trumped veracity and the women always won. On

A myth, therefore, is true because it is effective, not because it gives us factual information. If, however, it does not give us new insight into the deeper meaning of life, it has failed.

novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. If

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.

the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

My brother and sister have led extraordinary lives, but I wasn't there, and I can't tell you that part. I've stuck here to the part I can tell, the part that's mine, and still everything I've said is all about them, a chalk outline around the space where they should have been. Three children, one story. The only reason I'm the one telling it is that I'm the one not currently in a cage.

This is a good reminder that no one in the world is a reliable source for their own story.

As a writer, I have a moral deal with you, the reader - if I hook you with a story, my part of the deal is to follow through and give you a satisfying outcome.

sing the hokey pokey of her life story, where she put the truth in, pulled a lie out, added an embellishment, and shook it all about.