Quotes About Narrative

Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

He must tell his own story.' 'But he will tell only half of it.' 'A quarter would be enough.

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.

Men have had every advantage of us is telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.

Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Yes, I've found that stories reach the heart better than any facts or figures.

Don't you want to know what happened?" Carol turned to look at her and put her hands on her hips. She said, "No, I don't, because I don't want you making a story out of it, because as soon as you make a story out of it, then it keeps happening every time you tell it, and if you make a good story out of it, then you're gonna want to tell it, so don't bother.

not unlike a bomb blast, two years after that, where was he, northern France, if you called Cambrai France (some people didn't, they called it "Kamerijk

In those days all stories ended with the wedding.

You think you know this story. You do not.

The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.

Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.

The storyteller in me asks: what if? And when I try to answer that, a story begins

After a while, the story becomes the truth because no one actually remembers how things really happened.

You want to tell this story, perhaps now you will.

That's the damnedest story I think I've ever heard. It's so unbelievable, I actually believe it.

Who was I, really? I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces. I was starting to find some of them, working my way upriver, collecting a secret cache of broken memories in a shoebox.

Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind

Trials are won by attorneys whose stories fit, and lost by those whose stories are like the shapeless housecoat that truth, in her disdain of appearances, has chosen as her uniform.

I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.