Quotes About Narrative

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Empathy is something you must create when the hero is introduced. Making your hero a victim in the middle of the movie or showing him becoming kind and loving may make your story richer, but it doesn't create empathy and identification.

convey the most powerful elements of your story clearly, succinctly and passionately

To be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of the narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey.

Baptism is a symbolic narrative not only of incorporation into Christ but also of ongoing life in Christ. Although a once-for-all death to sin occurs in baptism, as Christ died only once, this death must be constantly reactualized.

Our minds have an amazing ability to create a narrative that explains the world around us, an ability that works particularly well when we already know the answer.

Take the story of David. The way poor King Saul gets written about, it's like he's an idiot and a maniac, because you think, well, it was written by David's guys. But by the end, David looks more like the idiot and maniac, even though he's supposed to be the hero. Point: there comes a time in everyone's life when only the truth will do, and you have to look reality square in the eyes.

The late Andrew Breitbart saw this as essential, writing, "The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn't have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything. I call it the Democrat-media complex.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

Those phone calls, those millions of words and stories, merely became the beginning of the Book of Us.

In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?

A story is time itself, boxed and compressed.

Every excursion or expedition we take is a story, an inner narrative that we sometimes don't even realise we're following.

I have a few regrets. There was a girl I should have married, a war in which I should never have fought, a loaf of bread I should have shared, a lie to which I should never have listened. And there is a story I should have told.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

We are our planet's autobiographers- so lets tell as many stories as is possible.

Write your screenplays to raise, develop, and answer one central dramatic question so that your reader or audience will stay hooked.