Quotes About Narrative

Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it has no power over you.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

The reason we cry is because sometimes words are just not enough to tell our life story.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn?t have to relive it again!

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.

When death tells a story yo really have to listen

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

The story, not the money, excites me.

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

I write largely plot-driven stories.