Quotes About Narrative

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody?

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

'The Message' is one of my most ambitious projects in terms of content and story.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

You always need to make sure that you're looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the story, know what's happening. You have to write for everyone.

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.

We are the only animal that tells stories.

Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

Stories appeal to humanity.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

It's always good to have a story arch.

Do not infer from this that either side is taken here; either that of the Emperor Nicholas against Poland, or that of Poland against the Emperor. It would be a foolish thing to slip political discussion into tales that are intended to amuse or interest

Das Glück hat keine Geschichte, und die Erzähler aller Länder haben das so gut begriffen, dass der Satz "Sie wurden glücklich" alle Liebesabenteuer schließt.

We may see by what happens in our own day how history is falsified at the very moment when events happen.

Let a play have five acts, neither more nor less.