Quotes About Narrative

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.

People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap

What I really want to do is produce. There isn't much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Don't write to sell, write to tell.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

Every heart has a unique story to tell. We just need a mind to listen.

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

What doesn't kill you makes a good story.

Fear of being wrong paralyzes people. Get over it! If you're wrong, invent a new narrative and move on." - L. R. W. Lee

If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative beats no narrative." - L. R. W. Lee

You control whether you are happy. It's all your narrative and you can change it if you choose to." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written.

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.