Quotes About Narrative

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God's.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say?

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.