Quotes About Narrative

And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.

Inside every human is a story worth sharing. What's your story?

Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author

We are all an unforgettable artwork and a story yet to be told.

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.

It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.

The choice you make between hating and forgiving can be the story of your life

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

Evangelism is not mere initiation into a relationship with God but the formation of a community within a narrative that is not yet complete.

As historian Dick de Mildt argues, "By converting the criminal actors of the story into demon-like lunatics, we distance ourselves from them in a radical fashion, assuming them to belong to a different species which only remotely resembles us in physiognomy.

Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.

There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.

How could people let go of their old things, when each told a part of their story? Old things were a literature, a narrative.

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.