Quotes About Narrative

IN THE END, THE JOURNEY OF THE STORY BEGINS

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

If you can't share your story, you can't sell your product.

If people don´t trust you, maybe you´ve told them the wrong story

we cannot be in the present and run our story lines at the same time!

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.