Quotes About Narrative

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.