Quotes About Narrative

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

It's all true; only the facts have been changed.

is a 'story processor', writes the psychologist Professor Jonathan Haidt, 'not a logic processor'.

Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story.

The difference between a live play and a dead one is that in the former the characters control the plot, while in the latter the plot controls the characters.

Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

They lived autobiographies

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning.

We are what we myth.