Quotes About Narrative

You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

I believe in letting the story speak for itself.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.