Quotes About Narrative

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

I smile not because I'm happy I just accept the fact that problems are part of my story.

There are two sides to every story.

My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story.

Maybe it's not about the happy ending, maybe it's about the story.

Every tear has a story...Every smile has a story...Every kiss has a story...Everyone is trying to tell their own story to the world but they cant because life is full of hate these days...Lets try to change this hate to love so we can live a happy life.

Life is a movie, and you're the director to decide whether people will laugh or cry when watching yours.

The only people who truly know your story, are the ones who help you write it.

Everyone you know is a character in the movie of your life. You just have to decide who are the STARS and who are the EXTRAS!