Quotes About Narrative

Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, 'How can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

And so your account of creation ends, 'And finally man appeared.'

I'm saying that the price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?" I

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.

Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

One story deserves another