Quotes About Narrative

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

To be human is to be in a story.

Masculine and feminine stories cannot have the same ending.

We all just want to be the hero in the story. Mimi.D.

the stories of Koreans in Japan should be told somehow when so much of their lives had been despised, denied, and erased.

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story. I

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story.

It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read.

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Right from the beginning, I've always gone to stories when I feel that I can tell them in a special way, that they're mine, that they won't let me go.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

No, Ernie, says Agata, there's no plot, we're only women talking.

the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.

Historija radi Å¡irokim potezima, a fresco. Historija slika dekorativno!

Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

pen. Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

Who eats salad?" Casey asked, tearing lettuce leaves and putting them in a bowl. "Girls do." Ty seasoned the last of the steaks and set the plate aside before opening up the bag of shrimp he had in the sink. "Why do you make all this food for Ms. Monroe but not for us?" Ty didn't have time to get into the things men do for women, making Caesar salad being about the least of them. "You're eating it tonight, aren't you?" "I'm not eating the salad, that's for sure.

Womanist religious scholars want to unearth the hidden voices in history, scripture, and the experiences of contemporary marginalized African American women to discover fragments that can create a narrative for the present and future.

Most non-Christian philosophies consider history to be the enemy of truth. Feminism shares this suspicion of history.