Quotes About Narrative

Every brand is a running narrative, a story-in-progress whose hero is the customer. If at any point the story splits into two stories aimed at two different tribes, you then have two brands. To keep the narrative together, each new feature, extension, or product use must keep something from the original direction to preserve logical continuity.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

The dang man could tell a good story fluffed with terms like gonna do and want to do but he never quite grasped the idea of did.

Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something.

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

It was our story. It didn't have to have a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich soapy bath, a night's rest at an inn and full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.

Our stories must be passed to our sons and daughters, for with but one generation, history and truth are lost forever.

Greater stories will have their way.

Write it down, he had told me. Write down every word once you get there, Before the truth is forgotten. And now we do, at least the parts we remember. —Greyson Ballenger, 14

Who will write our story Jase? We will Kazi. You and I will write our own story. And side by side, every day, that is what we do.

It was our story. It didn't have to have a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich, soapy bath, a night's rest at an inn and a full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.

I don't think there is any book that can't teach you something, even if it is how not to tell a story.

Lie back and enjoy, Clarissima. Last night was a synopsis. Now it's time for the unabridged version.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the habits of expression of the several characters impress themselves on the relation of the episode in which they are involved, and on the description of their situations.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

There isn't a person you wouldn't love if you could read their story

We are the hero of our own story.

Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.

When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we're inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts -- that we are individuals, but not alone.

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.