Quotes About Narrative

Story in a game," he said, "is like a story in a porn movie; it's expected to be there, but it's not that important.

For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

In the United States, however, we have lost the thread of logic in the stories that we tell.

We live in an era when everyone wants to tell his or her story, but there is no real sense of what story means anymore.

No, we are in the midst of a broken story, and we have lost the ability to parse its lines.

Pierce is referring to the collapse of collective narrative, which is what we are experiencing as a culture: left and right relying on their own news sources, Raw Story and the Daily Caller, MSNBC and Fox News. Not only that, but even the factions are factionalized, and have been since at least the 1960s. Purity, the rabid fervor of the true believer (the same for all extremists, left and right), versus pragmatism, competence.

You could probably call the whole thing an ordinary love story.

Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.