Quotes About Narrative

I think 'NH10' could have been done equally well by anybody else, and it's not a 'female-centric' or 'male-centric' film. It's the story that will appeal to the audience.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

We got in the ring and wrestled almost every night and didn't have many days off... The only thing I knew for certain when I got in the ring was exactly how I went in. We told a story and the match was the story.

I believed in Papa's stories a lot longer than I should have.

Por mucho que escuchara, siempre hablaban de lo mismo, la libertad, pero no decían ni una palabra de la sopa. Yo estaba, por supuesto, muy contento de que fuéramos libres, pero no podía evitar pensar que el día anterior no había ocurrido nada por el estilo, pero teníamos sopa.

daß jenseits des Anekdotischen jede Geschichte und jedermanns Geschichte vom wesentlichen her gesehen gleichartig sei, und daß diese im wesentlichen gleichartigen Geschichten im wesentlichen tatsächlich alle Schreckensgeschichten seien, daß im wesentlichen alles Geschehen tatsächlich schrecklich sei und daß, im wesentlichen, auch die Geschichte schon seit langem nichts als höchstens eine Schreckensgeschichte sei.

Even after death we do not finish our story

Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Who brings a tale takes two away.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

There is no reason why a well thought-out story should resemble real life; life strives with all its might to resemble a well thought-out story.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.