Quotes About Narrative

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.

Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat—tell it to me.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story'.

Like water, tales find their own paths; they go where they are needed.

Ja pri?am pri?e. Mi svi izmišljamo pri?e. Pri?at ?u ti pri?e koje ?e te nasmijati. Volim da te gledam kako se smiješ. Nikad ne?u pobje?i iz ovog zatvora beskrajnih pri?a.

Description, which had seemed like background in novels, static and inert as a butterfly pinned to the pages of my notebook, proved to be a dynamic engine that stoked voice and, even more, propelled the occasional narrative arc.

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

there are plenty of people willing to share their side of the story

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

You're the hero of your own story.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Napoleon once said, What is history, but a fable agreed upon? He smiled. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.

History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account

Sejarah selalu ditulis oleh pemenang.

Cuando se produce un choque entre dos culturas, el perdedor es erradicado y el vencedor escribe los libros de historia, libros que cantan las glorias de su causa y denigran al enemigo conquistado.

La historia será amable conmigo, porque tengo intención de escribirla.

What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' Ã¢â'¬Â He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie

History is but a fable agreed upon

Dupa cum observa odata Napoleon? ,,Ce e istoria altceva decat o poveste convenabil ticluita? Prin insasi natura ei, istoria e totdeauna o relatare subiectiva.