Quotes About Narrative

Every day of your life is a page of your history

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

Life is like a story, it has an ending...

Life is too short for a long story.

I have been through life's joy and pain, sunshine and tunnel, sadness and gladness but these are what make my life complete; for me to have a story to tell.

There are two sides to every story, and more often than not somewhere in the middle you will find the truth.

We are all the main characters in our stories so we should right the ending of how it should be ourselves.

Everyone has a story. Be willing to hear it before you judge.

I guess sometimes in life we have to deal with the hand we have been dealt. No way around it, in the end we all have a story to tell.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Don't let anyone else hold your pen if you are writing your story.

Those years of my earliest childhood are no longer a part of myself; they are external to me; I can learn nothing of them save as we learn things that happened before we were born — from the accounts given me by other people.

La historia se ha escrito al margen de nosotras, pero nosotras mismas la hemos moldeado desde atrás.

Existe un antiguo mito que sostiene que contar historias puede curar enfermedades o salvar; sin historias, viviríamos un presente viejo. Dame la mano, Camila, ven conmigo y te contaré alguna.

Everybody is convinced they have seen something others have not seen, and they delude themselves that they have thought things that other have it thought, but this is just because someone has taken the trouble to tell an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I also fell in love with Borges. He is a mathematician's writer. His short stories are like mathematical proofs, delicately constructed and with ideas laced together effortlessly. Each step is taken with precision and watertight logic, yet the narrative is full of surprising twists and turns.

There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.