Quotes About Narrative

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.

Your story is important.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

Sad thing when stories die for the lack of listenin' ears.

Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.

It's funny how family histories seem to differ, depending on whom you ask.

At the very least, we must tell our stories, mustn't we? Speak the names? You know, there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our

That's what I'd say in my essay about To Kill a Mockingbird, I decided. I'd make sure the English teacher knew that the story of Jem and Scout and Atticus Finch wasn't just words someone made up in a book. There were people who lived it—people of all different

When we lose our stories, we lose ourselves.

was their job to always hold tight to the past, to tell it to the young'uns.

Stories are a little like mind places. You can do whatever you want with them. I want my stories to have happy endings, where nobody hurts anybody. There's enough hard stuff in the real world.

She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

May your names never go unspoken and your stories forever be told.

because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as white birds in the trees Because the story of our life becomes our life Because each of us tells the same story but tells it differently and none of us tells it the same way twice . . (from, Why We Tell Stories)

No one could say the stories were useless for as the tongue clacked five or forty fingers stitched corn was grated from the husk pathwork was pieced or the darning was done... (from 'The Storyteller Poems')

family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

There are some guys you date who are so bad that when you tell the story about them, it reflects just as badly on you as it does on them.

Stories don't always reflect the world; they make it, too. A book is a world inside the world, and sometimes there are worlds within that.

Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.