Quotes About Narrative

Un recuerdo evocado demasiado a menudo y expresado en forma de historia tiende a convertirse en un estereotipo... cristalizado, perfeccionado, adornado, instalándose en sí mismo en lugar de la memoria pura y dura, y creciendo a sus expensas.

Don't get ahead of the story,lad. You see, it's a very long story- because Danny Lubbins was at sea on that tiny slip of a plank raft... for three hundred days.

A first-class storyteller

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it, As though we had written it.

As we walked into the store, we saw that we were catching the evening's activity in medias res.

That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.

Strand, Mark [Blah blah blah biographical information, crossed out with Sharpie pen.] We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it, As though we had written it.

I am told not to let the tone of this narrative become too dark. A certain 400-pound muse will park his 150-pound ass on me by way of editorial comment, and there is always the threat of his urine-filled cat.

We are fictioneers.

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it, he instructed before I began to write, because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I tend to do that. Any life isn't just one story; it's thousands of them. So when I try to tell one of my own, I sometimes go down an alleyway when I should take the main street, or if the story is fourteen blocks long, I sometimes start on block four and have to backtrack to make sense.

Toda vida es una novela. La escribimos a medida que la vivimos.

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think that you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind. She

However, she's now been reminded of what she never should have forgotten—that the true prince of this world isn't Moloch. The prince of this world is the father of lies, and his followers are legion. Those who control the narrative

Nobody wanted to read sucky novels, and those people who wanted deep meaning didn't want it in every damn story

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.

There was a time to take refuge in the arms of those you loved, and there was a time to stand up to great evil and be not bowed. If you didn't know the difference, then you were doomed to perish about two-thirds of the way through the story, when the narrative needed a jolt of violence and emotion.

You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

People are books of a kind, each one a story. Sometimes, with no more than a glance or a gesture or a poignant word, they turn a page for you and reveal a deeper truth about themselves than you've seen before.

Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread to own a piece of our past. And when we own a story when we put it in a tidy box and store it on a high shelf it becomes manageable so that whatever negative effects it's been having on us are in theory lessened.

How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.

The real meaning of stories depends on where they're told, when and to whom.