Quotes About Narrative

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Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

As Isabel Allende said, "You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not." Step

Writer and researcher of group dynamics Christina Baldwin once said, "Words are how we think, story is how we link.

It's one thing to relay a fact to a person. It's a whole different thing when you tell a story.

When you want to change someone's mood, tell a story.

It has to be written, if only to lock away the real key to the story in a single page, and remove that page once the book is finished, so that no one will know what it is all about - as ever, the perfect crime. However, it must be possible for that page to be reconstituted without its secret being revealed, and this dispersal is the very mainspring of theoretical fiction.

Theory is never so fine as when it takes the form of a fiction or a fable.

I have come to realize that the rhythm of the film is one of narrative. I am telling the story. It is as if I were hidden behind the screen, saying: Then such and such a thing happened. The characters don't seem to be living a life of their own, but a life that is being narrated. Perhaps that's how it should be in a fairy tale.

I have always preferred mythology to history. Because history is made up of truths which eventually turn into lies. Mythology is made up of lies that eventually become truths.

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A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it

He pensado lo siguiente: para que el suceso más trivial se convierta en aventura, es necesario y suficiente contarlo.

Ya yaÅŸamay? ya da anlatmay? seçmek gerek.

I thought I'd try to write her a life

Dad used to say a story was worth writing if it made a difference to even one person. in Paper Daughter

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies