Quotes About Narrative

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

All stories begin before they start and never, ever finish.

Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

This is not the way our story ends. You know this' - 'Stories do not end.' - 'Ah, you are right, but you are also wrong. They end and they begin every moment. It is all about when you stop the telling.

No penséis que no habéis vivido lo bastante como para no tener una historia que contar.

The devil tells the best stories.

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.

There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than the story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

Stories don't end with the writers, however many started the race.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

People see stories everywhere...That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true.

Stories don't always have happy endings," ... Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?

Las historias son importantes [...]. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.