Quotes About Narrative

Memoirs lie, but fiction tells the truth.

One's story isn't a skin to be shed— it's inescapable, one's body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that's at once your invention and the invention of you.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Dottor Spielvogel, questa è la mia vita, la mia unica vita, e la sto vivendo da protagonista di una barzelletta ebraica! Io sono il figlio in una barzelletta ebraica… solo che non è affatto una barzelletta!

Nathan, your story, as far as Gentiles are concerned, is about one thing and one thing only. Listen to me, before you go. It is about kikes. Kikes and their love of money.

Fiction's about what it is to be a f*****g human being.

La narrativa o mueve montañas o es aburrida; o mueve montañas o se sienta sobre su propio culo

Realism: if Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

Republicans lost control of the narrative because they never held the Democrats accountable for their betrayal.

If how we tell history is one of the ways we shape our present and future, we can do no better than to rethink the myth of the First Thanksgiving and its role in the Thanksgiving holiday.

If the Wampanoags are as much our fellow Americans as the descendants of the Pilgrims, and if their history can be as instructional and inspirational as that of the English, then why continue to tell a Thanksgiving myth that focuses exclusively on the colonists' struggles rather than theirs?

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.

So what's your story?" Ryan asks. Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?" "Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

We thought there was a wall around our story. But what if there were windows?

True or not, every story has something it wants you to remember. True or not, every story has something it wants you to believe.

We are writing ourselves, writing each other. I am words, and there you are to read them.

I am a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell

I don't remember what book it was - it almost doesn't matter, because the sensation of being read to is so much more powerful than any individual story.

Knit me a sweater out of your best stories. Not the day's petty injustices. Not the glimmer of a seven-eighths-forgotten moment from your past. Not something that somebody said to somebody, who then told it to you. No, I want a yarn. It doesn't have to be true. "Okay," you say. "Do you want to know how I met you?" I nod. "It was on the carousel. You were on the pink horse, I was on the yellow. You

You can't ask for much more than that - a good woman and a story to tell.

It re-enters the world of the Iliad to recount the story of Achilles, Patroclus and Hector, and, in a very different version from the original, Priam's journey to the Greek camp. But its primary interest is in storytelling itself – why stories are told and why we need to hear them, how stories get changed in the telling – and much of what it has to tell are 'untold tales' found only in the margins of earlier writers.