Quotes About Narrative

Brett Favre likes to tell stories.

I don't like albums; I like projects. I want to tell a story - I don't want to limit myself to 10 songs or four songs or whatever. I just tell a story and I want you to feel something. If it took me one song or if it took me four, call it however you want. So I call them projects.

There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

When I shoot a film, I take my camera and put it among the characters and let it show you their world, their problems, their happiness and the little things that matter to them.

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.

People just love stories.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

Yes, you know Luke Skywalker isn't going to die in issue #3. But that doesn't mean you've seen every Luke Skywalker story there is to tell.

Fiction is just lying.

In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.

I do not care about the length of my role. But it should make a difference to the story.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.