Quotes About Narrative

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...

Our emotional reactions depend on the story we tell ourselves, the running commentary in the mind that interprets the data we receive through our senses.

Some say history is made by the winners. Sometimes, it's rewritten by an author.

am slowly realizing that even though the Singer is the center of the story that it really isn't his story. Like there's a version of this story that's not really about him, but about the people around him, the ones who come and go that might actually provide a bigger picture than me asking him why he smokes ganja.

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

We're accompanied by an internal play-by-play announcer who is forever proclaiming the way things supposedly are and should be in our game of life. This announcer believes it's being helpful, but it doesn't realize the commentaries are ruining the game. Not only is it covering over the real action, but it's setting us up for disappointment, since the game itself rarely matches what's supposed to be happening.

The process approach employs narrative explanation that notes the contributions actions and events make to a particular outcome and then configures these parts into a whole episode ( Polkinghorne, 1988). It

Mirar, escuchar: ponerse en modo esponja. Nunca deja de maravillarme el privilegio de que personas me cuenten sus historias, sus vidas; nunca deja de sorprenderme la cantidad de cosas que tantas personas pueden contarte si te ven dispuesto a escucharlas.

Our life isn't a story that we read. It's a story that we write as we live it, one page at a time.

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. —ELIE WIESEL

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.

When a major character died in the twentieth episode I had to pause seven minutes while it sat there in the feed doing the bot equivalent of staring at a wall, pretending that it had to run diagnostics. Then four episodes later the character came back to life and it was so relieved we had to watch that episode three times before it would go on.

By the term short story I mean the recital of a destiny which is represented in a single incident; by anecdote the recital of a single incident which illumines an entire destiny.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Between the intention and the act, life was often a tale told to the deaf. •

No matter how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story. As

This is reported by Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book VI, pars. 28–30.

Without such beliefs and stories, as Carl Jung put it, we would be 'crushed by the sheer awe-fullness of the universe'. In other words, without a story to give us a place in the greater picture, we will become lost or, even worse, think that we are the story.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death.

Death is the ending of all true stories.