Quotes About Narrative

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Come ha detto qualcuno, le storie capitano solo a chi le sa raccontare. Analogamente, forse, le esperienze si presentano solo a chi è capace di viverle.

cuando una persona es lo bastante afortunada para vivir dentro de una historia, para habitar un mundo imaginario, las penas de este mundo desaparecen. Mientras la historia sigue su curso, la realidad deja de existir.

Hikayeler ancak onlar? anlatmas?n? bilenlerin ba??na gelirler.

That's the problem with history, we like to think it's a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn't the paper it's printed on. It's memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.

life just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens... Stories solve this problem—as the critic Clive James once put it, 'Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.' This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.

source. The legend of the deluge[14] agrees in all important details with the analogous story in Genesis.

The gospel narrative is all about the larceny and restoration of true worship, the thing for which we were given breath, the worship of God.

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11)

The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or their own baggage of values and prejudices.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the form of a mythic narrative of some sort) that is animating events to reveal itself. Instead of superimposing our limiting ideas and beliefs onto the waking dream, we can allow life to show its dreamlike nature to us.

How to tell a story? First find a point of view.

As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative form - Paul Mijksenaar quoted by Kim Baer

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot.

And you're disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

By it's mimetic intention, the world of fiction leads us to the heart of the real world of action.

Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.

That's where I operate. In the shadows. Let other people take the credit. Don't be the story, shape the story: that's my motto.

l'histoire est connaissance mutilée. Un historien ne dit pas ce qu'a été..., mais ce qu'il est encore possible d'en savoir.

the modern media is the mass media and they understand only four things. Every story carried by the modern media involves one of these four things: sex, scandal, violence and celebrity culture. If a story does not include one of those four elements, it isn't a story and it becomes difficult if not impossible to get the message out. So, you have to tie your story to one of the four elements to ensure that it is picked up and that you get your message out. (p. 125)