Quotes About Narrative

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

They are not my stories...they are merely mine to tell