Quotes About Narrative

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Do not let the truth get in the way of a good story.

It is both unprecedented and unreasonable to assume that an intrusive text about a completely different matter, a narrative history of Abraham and his descendants, would have been inserted into a document whose beginning, middle, and end is devoted specifically to the resurrection of an Egyptian priest.

Smith's procedure is similar to that of ancient pseudepigraphists who, in the words of one scholar, "created something new, an imaginary Sacred Past, the way it should have been.

I've just become a character, we all have, in a story we don't get to write ourselves.

youtube has been told to get rid of anything that disputes the official narrative of total lies

I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished.

SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO: I always start from real emotions and experiences because I think that gives the narrative a lot of force. But the act of writing consists precisely in distorting those facts through fiction, injecting them with lies, until fantasy overtakes reality. The truth is never enough. That's why I write novels.

The story always starts with the character. In a way, there's no decision. If there's no character there's no story.

they all performed the same vital function: to flood the environment with narrative links between what they were doing now and what it meant.

What matters is establishing this link and consistently creating engagement around it. What matters is telling the story.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.

The Queen died. The King died." "The Queen died. And the King died of a broken heart." The first line was fact. The second line was a story. It placed the facts in context, added emotion and made us connect to it by making it memorable.

personal narrative has become more prevalent, and perhaps more urgent, in a time of abundance, when many of us are freer to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves and our purpose.

Story represents a pathway to understanding that doesn't run through the left side of the brain.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories." —ROGER C. SCHANK, cognitive scientist

The monsters want to talk, to share what happened. They want me to remember and write it all down.

I'm the hero of my own story, but others tell their stories as well.

But if the only thing defining us is trauma, or wounding, most of us wouldn't be here. Our stories are about far more than the dominant presumption of Indigenous lack or deficiency; our bodies are not only objects of contestation, or devastation, or pain, or suffering.

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.

One of the best ways to promote this type of integration is to help retell the story of the frightening or painful experience.

After retelling the story several times, Bella's fears lessened and eventually went away.