Quotes About Narrative

Inmiddels is Luk bezig aan Ilse een verhaal te vertellen, over een kapper. Dat die dood is. 'En nog zo jong,' hoor ik Luk zeggen. 'Hoe oud was hij?' vraagt Ilse. 'Dat weet ik niet. Veertig. Tweeënveertig.' 'Zo jong nog?' 'Ja. Ik weet het niet. Drieënveertig misschien. Ik weet het echt niet precies hoe oud.

Potential employers or coworkers come to know (and therefore, trust) us when they know our story and can accept it as legitimate. Sometimes it takes many rehearsals before it comes out just right. What happens in the retelling is not just a more polished story; we finally settle on a narrative that can inform the next step.

Contar una película es como contar un sueño. Contar una vida es como contar un sueño o una película.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.

For hundreds of years the monks have held the pen, and what they have written is what we take to be our history, but I do not believe it really is. I believe they have suppressed the history they don't like, and written one that is favourable to Rome.' Henry

The past changes a little every time we retell it.

I felt a wish to be fictionalized.

you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.

He would like her to shorten her account, but he understands her need to tell it over, moment by moment, to say it out loud. It is like a package of words she is making, to hand to him: this is yours now.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

how to retell exactly what had been said and done, without putting your own interpretation on it, and submit it to another judgement? It wasn't possible.

Hilary Mantel

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one.

Stories can justify anything. It doesn't matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn't matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn't. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller.

Because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.

Stories can justify anything. It doesn't matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn't matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn't. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller. And she's the one who shaded the tale so we'd feel whatever way we feel about him in the first place.

Talk to me," I say. "Tell me another fairy tale. Tell me something.

But standing in front of Midnight, knowing what actually happened, Tana could see that Midnight wasn't just telling a story to other people, she was telling a story to herself.

Eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Quiero comprobar qué harás. Quiero participar en el desarrollo de la narración.

Stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.